Debt Quotes

Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.
Benjamin Franklin
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard? s Almanac (1758)
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
G. Gordon Liddy
He that dies pays all debts.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 3 scene 2
Richard brinsley sheridan - he is indebted to his memory for his jests and to...
Mark twain - we owe a deep debt of gratitude to adam, the...
Debt is the slavery of the free.
Publilius Syrus
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.
Robert Ingersoll, ? What Must We Do To Be Saved?? (1880)
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.
James Goldsmith
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
Joseph F. Newton
Robert w. service - a promise made is a debt unpaid....
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Malayan Prove
Education a debt due from present to future generations.
George Peabody
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin
Praise will come to those whose kindness leaves you without debt.
Neil Finn, track #12 on his album "Try Whistling This".
Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt.
Herbert Clark Hoove
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
Joseph F. Newton
People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off.
Jewish Prove