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A promise made is a debt unpaid. -- Robert W. Service
Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of. -- Josh Billings
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. -- E. O. Wilson
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. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
Debt is normal. Be weird. -- Dave Ramsey
Debt is a bottomless sea. -- Thomas Carlyle
The wages of Gin is Debt. -- Ethel Mumford
Debt is dumb. Cash is king. -- Dave Ramsey
Debt is the slavery of the free. -- Publilius Syrus
Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa -- Thomas Sankara
Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect. -- Thomas Jefferson
Debt has become a part of who we are. -- Dave Ramsey
Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset. -- Paul Krugman
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime -- Benjamin Disraeli
Debt means you had more fun than you were supposed to. -- Greg Fitzsimmons
Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness. -- Seth Godin
Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender. -- James Grant
Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact. -- Noam Chomsky
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. -- Ambrose Bierce
The US Debt is the single biggest threat I see to innovation in American business. -- Erskine Bowles
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into. -- Josh Billings
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Debt . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force. -- Margaret Atwood
Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty -- Benjamin Franklin
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people -- Wendell Phillips
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. -- Wendell Phillips
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
Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault. -- David Graeber
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty. -- Theodore T. Munger
Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes. -- Stephen L. Richards
Wars are made to make debt. -- Ezra Pound
Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
Credit is an 'I love debt' score. -- Dave Ramsey
Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not? -- Pat Paulsen
A man in debt is so far a slave. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate. -- William Wycherley
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt. -- Benjamin Franklin
A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves. -- Ralph W. Sockman
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. -- Alexander Hamilton
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. -- Earl Wilson
I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them. -- Ernie Banks
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. -- Thomas Jefferson
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. -- Ogden Nash
We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay. -- Doc Hastings
This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt. -- Earl Wilson
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? -- Adam Smith
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it. -- Victor Hugo
The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled. -- Ross Perot
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim. -- Queen Elizabeth II
The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife. -- Thomas Jefferson
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. -- Carl Jung
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. -- Nancy Friday
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. -- Thomas Jefferson
Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory. -- James Lankford
The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. -- Steve Buyer
All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality. -- Michele Bachmann
The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days. -- Marilu Henner
People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down. -- James Taylor
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. -- Stephen King
Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They're concerned about jobs, the economy, debt. They're concerned about a plundering country. They're concerned about a decaying, dying country. -- Rush Limbaugh
Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I'm the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument. -- Eliot Spitzer
..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear. -- George Washington
It wasn't until I stood in my truth and told everybody that I had $250,000 in credit card debt. At that point, everything turned around for me. I had to reveal the truth about what I didn't have, more than pretend about what I did. That was interesting. -- Suze Orman
If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred. -- Peter Welch
This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty. -- Ted Cruz
America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed. -- Allen Boyd
Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon. -- Peer Steinbruck
We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again. -- Marco Rubio
I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the doctrine, that public debts are public benefits. I consider them, on the contrary, as evils which ought to be removed as fast as honor and justice will permit. -- James Madison
I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they're not getting some other matter. -- Warren Buffett
The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from. -- Donald Trump
Manchester United and Liverpool have been bought with huge leverage, and we've got Roman Abramovich at Chelsea who can turn his loans into shares. It is really important for the Premier League to ask itself: if a club is being bought on such a mountain of debt, isn't that a possible recipe for disaster for the future? -- Gordon Taylor
Lying rides upon debt's back. -- Benjamin Franklin
Debts and lies are generally mixed together -- Francois Rabelais
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy -- Publilius Syrus
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain -- Moliere
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few -- Winston Churchill
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them -- Ogden Nash
If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours -- John Maynard Keynes
It is possible to pay another man's debts on his behalf, but it is not possible to make a guilty man innocent by suffering in his place -- Carl Lofmark
Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic -- George Washington
Ambition's debt is paid. -- William Shakespeare
..[Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt... -- George Washington
I invested all my money in debt. -- Hamish Linklater
Nobody can solve debt problems like me. -- Donald Trump
Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency. -- Elizabeth Warren
There's nothing as short as short-term debt. -- Evan Esar
Forever in debt to your priceless advice. -- Kurt Cobain
A public debt is a public curse. -- James Madison
There's no debt limit in the Constitution. -- James Surowiecki
An emotional debt is hard to square. -- Iceberg Slim
A church debt is the devil's salary. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I've always had an aversion to debt. -- Brunello Cucinelli
The borrower runs in his own debt. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich. -- George Herbert
Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow. -- Seneca the Younger
Women hate a debt as men a gift. -- Robert Browning
The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty. -- Theodore T. Munger
The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt. -- Ben Bernanke
The oldest and most important currency is debt. -- Kabir Sehgal
Charity is an eternal debt and without limit. -- Pasquier Quesnel
Any creator owes a debt to past creation. -- Lukas Foss
Science does not know its debt to imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net. -- Benjamin Franklin
Pull in your belt, spend less, and reduce debt. -- Ray Dalio
I built a huge profitable business with no debt. -- Sophia Amoruso
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static. -- Edmund Burke
Forgiveness is simply a decision to cancel a debt. -- Andy Stanley
Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs. -- Herbert Hoover
I have never had personal debt and never will. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The only thing socialists produce is debt and self-esteem -- Dennis Prager
I just don't like people taking debt into retirement. -- Michelle Singletary
Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe. -- Mark Twain
An entrepreneur in debt is an entrepreneur in business. -- Duncan Bannatyne
Public debt [is] a burden on all the people. -- Calvin Coolidge
Education : a debt due from present to future generations. -- George Peabody

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