Absurd Quote by Murray Rothbard

Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.

— Calvin Coolidge

A public debt is a public curse.

— James Madison

Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is that a…

— Mo Udall

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I firmly believe that the U.S. has to honor its debt.

— Steve Mnuchin

I fully believe that the U.S. has the obligation to honor its debt.

— Steve Mnuchin

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

— James Madison

The amount of debt we're adding, at a trillion a year, is simply not moral.

— Mitt Romney

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

— David Graeber

We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Debt has become a part of who we are.

— Dave Ramsey

Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.

— Muriel Spark