Choices Quote by Thomas Jefferson

I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence,…

— Thomas Jefferson

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

— Thomas Jefferson

I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.

— Thomas Jefferson

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little. We contemplate the…

— Warren G. Harding

In an economy where public spending is extremely important, the governments must spend, they must spend more but at the same time you can't…

— Arun Jaitley

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

“The natural state of our economy is prosperity. Freedom guarantees that. The only force capable of undermining it is government.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

— W. C. Sellar

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

— George Gilder

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

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

— John Adams