Nature Quote by Ron Chernow

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

— Wendell Phillips

Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has…

— Stephen L. Richards

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

— George Gilder

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control…

— Susan George

And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual,…

— Alexander Hamilton

“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the…

— D.R. Bell

“The immense and undeniable loss of freedoms, as they were in 1900, is undeniable. We have seen the acceleration in efficiency of the tyrannizing…

— Ezra Pound

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

— William J. Clinton

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the…

— Thomas Jefferson

“It was evident from the general tone of the whole party, that they had come to regard insolvency as the normal state of mankind,…

— Charles Dickens

“For me, this is exactly what’s so pernicious about the morality of debt: the way that financial imperatives constantly try to reduce us all,…

— David Graeber

“We begin with an infinite debt to something called "Society".”

— Debt The First 5 000 Years by David Graeber