Accumulation Quote by George Washington

Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the…

— George Washington

No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or…

— George Washington

The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that…

— John Milton

“When the tumult of war shall cease, and the tempest of present passions be succeeded by calm reflection, or when those, who, surviving its…

— Thomas Paine

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

— George Washington

Wars are made to make debt.

— Ezra Pound

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

— Baron de Montesquieu

In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal Government. Its…

— Martin Van Buren

We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape as will…

— Alexander Hamilton

“While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single…

— Seneca

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the…

— Robert Walpole