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The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. -- James Howell
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. -- Gore Vidal
The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer. -- Robert Kiyosaki
It's an open secret that if a debtor is willing to wait long enough, he can probably get away with paying almost nothing, as long as he doesn't mind hurting his credit score. -- Charles Duhigg
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
But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise. -- Origen
That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself. -- Paul Sarbanes
Every novel is a debtor to Homer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hold every man a debtor to his profession. -- Francis Bacon
Our country has tremendous problems. We're a debtor nation. -- Donald Trump
It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy -- Publilius Syrus
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. -- Publilius Syrus
Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest. -- Honore de Balzac
The borrower is slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor. -- Benjamin Franklin
Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor. -- James Grant
The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors. -- Francois Rabelais
The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having... -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor. -- Niall Ferguson
Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster. -- Fannie Hurst
Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God's debtor. -- Saint Augustine
The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home. -- Chanakya
So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does. -- Oswald Chambers
We are a debtor nation, and we owe now $19 trillion and it's going to go up very fast by the way from this point. -- Donald Trump
We are a debtor nation, our airports are third world, our highways are falling apart. Our roads, our bridges, everything, we're like third world. -- Donald Trump
The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established. -- Andy Stanley
People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor. -- Yanis Varoufakis
The fact that younger people are more inclined to socialism may well come with the fact that so many young people`s first experience with capitalism is as a debtor. -- Chris Matthews
Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
America has tremendous problems. We're a debtor nation. We're a serious debtor nation. And we have a country that needs new roads, new tunnels, new bridges, new airports, new schools, new hospitals. -- Donald Trump
I would love to see a fundamental re-thinking of whether we truly want to be the world's largest debtor nation, feeding an insatiable desire for mall-crawling with cheaply made crap from all over the world. -- Denis Hayes

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