Debt 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

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

Wars are made to make debt.

— Ezra Pound

[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt.

— George Washington

A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

— John Milton

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

— Baron de Montesquieu

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

— Alain de Botton

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

— Roger Moore

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

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

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

There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.

— Charles Caleb Colton