Politics Quote by Thomas Cogswell Upham

“Will the adoption of this new plan pay our debts! This, Sir, is a plain question. It is inferred, that our grievances are to…

— Patrick Henry

“Even as I write these words, our ticking national debt clock tells us that we are increasing our debt by 3 billion dollars a…

— Erwin W. Lutzer

“Idleness does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formualries of the ruling class.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

“he warned that progressive accumulation of debt “is perhaps the NATURAL DISEASE of all Governments. And it is not easy to conceive anything more…

— Ron Chernow

“We have become a society of indulgent consumers resulting in rapidly increasing debt both personally and as a nation.”

— L G Durand

“It seems to be our fate to continually pass our debt back and forth.”

— Susan Ee

“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

Idleness ruins the constitution

— Ovid

“To saddle the next generation with unimaginable debt is not only callous, it is morally reprehensible”

— Ben Carson

“When your livelihood depends on self-imposed productivity, you either get good at it or you find yourself in mounds of debt.”

— Nacie Carson

“Americans today don't have a problem with debt. They have a problem with out-of-control spending. Debt is simply the result.”

— Gregory Karp