Debt Quotes

Science does not know its debt to imagination. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. View quote
Herbert Hoover
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt. View quote
Henrik Ibsen
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them. View quote
Ernie Banks
Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting. View quote
Bill Gates
We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart. View quote
Romeo LeBlanc
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house. View quote
William Graham Sumner
I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Debt is a bottomless sea. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie ''answers'' questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare. View quote
Gore Vidal
Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt. View quote
William Cobbett
The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted. View quote
David Brin
By no means run in debt take thine own measure. Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty. View quote
George Herbert
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. View quote
John Buchan
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. (Publilius Syrus)
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. View quote
Carl Jung
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man in debt is so far a slave. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson