Debt Quote by 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

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

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

“How idle then is the notion that some entertain, that the establishment of this plan of government will speedily extricate us out of debt,…

— Thomas Cogswell Upham

No measure can be more desirable, whether viewed with an eye to its intrinsic importance, or to the general sentiment and wish of the…

— George Washington

“The Framers reasoned that Congress, faced with a president who usurps legislative prerogatives, would fight back by cutting off money the president would need…

— Andrew McCarthy

“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary.”

— Margaret Atwood

“For Madison, on the other hand, “a Public Debt is a Public curse,” and “in a Representative Government greater than in any other.”26”

— Joseph J. Ellis

“All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, nor from want of honor or virtue,…

— John Adams

“in August 1777 that "no public or private injury or insult shall prevail on me to forsake the cause of my injured and oppressed…

— Willard Sterne Randall

There are respectable individuals, who from a just aversion to an accumulation of Public debt, are unwilling to concede to it any kind of…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Neither the discontent of party friends, nor the allurements constantly offered of confirmations of appointees conditions upon the avowal that suspensions have been made…

— Grover Cleveland