Debt Quote by Doug Casey Download Open image “People who buy government debt deserve to be punished and taught a lesson” — Doug Casey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Debt Deserve Government Government debt Lessons People Politics Taught Taught A Lesson
If debtors can reasonably expect that the government will swoop in from time to time to bail them out, no one has any incentive… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
People have tried to control other people by trapping them with debt. A loan can become a harmful and dangerous weapon. — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
When the country's indebtedness is so colossal and where the budget deficit is so huge, there is a moral obligation on people to pay… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The idea that debt is necessary for trade, and has to be forgiven, is consequent to the rise of a market economy. The idea… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has… — Stephen L. Richards Copy Share Image
Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their time and… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The way I see it, gold is headed over $1000 an ounce, probably much higher. At anywhere near current prices, it's the lowest risk,… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Do all that you say you are going to do and don't aggress against other people or their property. That's the whole of the… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
So-called 'higher education' is a veritable magnet for second-raters and actively destructive parasites bent on promoting unsound ideas to the inexperienced and gullible. The… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
The time will come, and probably during 2009, that the only way the U.S. will be able to fund its deficits is to create… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
They've been changing the cry from "global warming" to "climate change" because there's so little evidence there's actually any warming going on. I believe… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Global warming hysterics generally have limited scientific knowledge, and of geology and meteorology in particular. Their belief is not science; it's more akin to… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Fear is being used by the political class as an excuse to accumulate more power and self-importance - and collect a lot more taxes… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Government intervention in the economy - through taxes, regulation and, most importantly, currency inflation - causes distortions and misallocations of capital that must eventually… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return. — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
Global warming is the most prominent form of mass hysteria raging across the world today. — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
All these people who think they deserve free health care, or a job, or a plasma screen TV, simply because they radiate heat at… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination. — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is perhaps my greatest hope, Mr. President, that some day we'll consider tax and spending measures with no one else in mind but… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit. — Martha Roby Copy Share Image
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
“The human eye is restricted to see the useen, because there’s a price to be paid to the rulers of this image and if… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image