Ability Quote by Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

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

— Baron de Montesquieu

I don't mind the government accruing debts as long as every dollar is spent effectively with a high return. That works out fine. If…

— Jeremy Grantham

No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn't create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything…

— Nouriel Roubini

A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a…

— Will Rogers

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

Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?

— Kent Conrad

You have to tackle the real drivers of debt - that's mandatory spending, not discretionary.

— Dan Crenshaw

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom.…

— George Osborne

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

If the Nation is living within its income, its credit is good. If, in some crises, it lives beyond its income for a year…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

— Wendell Phillips

It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure…

— Alexander Hamilton