Debt Quotes
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History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.
George Gilder
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
Henrik Ibsen
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A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.
Seneca the Younger
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Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.
George Dennison Prentice
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When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
Bill Ballance
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Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.
Paul Ryan
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The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody.
Jon Runyan
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To Barack and Michelle Obama - America owes you an enormous debt of gratitude.
Hillary Clinton
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The wages of Gin is Debt.
Ethel Watts Mumford
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It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him.
Harry Lloyd
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As long as one makes some kind of conscious state, whether a “passive sensation” or an “apprehended”, come before reality, one will remain more or less in debt to the idealist method. The realist method pursues an exactly opposite course. Every given reality implies the thought which apprehends it. Therefore being is the condition of knowing; knowing is not the condition of being. When this has been established, another step in the direction of metaphysics can be taken.
Etienne Gilson
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Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
Ernest Jennings Ford
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There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it . . .
Brigham Young
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We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.
Rick Santelli
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Avoid likewise the accumulation of debt.
George Washington
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We came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt.
Hillary Clinton
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If any people are homeless in Australia today, it is the Aboriginals, They are the only non-European descended people to whom we owe any debt. Some day, I hope, we will do justice to them.
Arthur Calwell
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If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or buy something you want but don't need, you've done something stupid. Stupid and short-sighted and ultimately life-changing for the worse.
Seth Godin
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Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.
William Shakespeare
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Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?
Erwin W. Lutzer
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We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates.
Paul Ryan
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One of the ways you go after the debt, one of the ways you create jobs is by investing in people.
Hillary Clinton