Burden Quote by Thomas Pogge

Countries that need monies so that they can provide health care and education and shelter to their people shouldn't have to repay debts that…

— Noreena Hertz

People have tried to control other people by trapping them with debt. A loan can become a harmful and dangerous weapon.

— Kabir Sehgal

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

— Wendell Phillips

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

— John Ruskin

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

You have countries that have lived beyond their means, with bloated governments, huge trade deficits, and people living off the government. Then you have…

— Peter Schiff

There is a belief, at least on the part of the American people, that they can borrow money forever without consequence.

— Porter Stansberry

I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge.…

— Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

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

When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to abridge them…

— David Ramsey

As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow…

— Abraham Lincoln