Argument Quote by Sam Seder

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

A public debt is a public curse.

— James Madison

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

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

— Calvin Coolidge

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

— William J. Clinton

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

These debt obligations will simply erode America's standard of living in the future. Money spent to service the debt is money that we don't…

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

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

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

All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives…

— Roger Ebert