Debt Free Quotes

• Never spend your money before you have earned it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Owing A Debt, Riches

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• Investing is important, but get debt-free first. That's what frees up your income so you can win.

  Dave Ramsey

  Winning, Important, Firsts

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• Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them.

  Ogden Nash

  Fun, Owing A Debt, Retiring

  "The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash".

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• I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free.

  Stephen King

  Pain, Two, Amazing Things

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• Debt is the slavery of the free.

  Publilius Syrus

  Money, Slavery, Financial

  "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 14,

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• Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

  George D. Prentice

  People, Use, Credit

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• Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Life, Beautiful, Home

  Henrik Ibsen (1965). “A doll's house”, p.31, Рипол Классик

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  This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.

  Earl Wilson

  Love, Couple, Would Be

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• Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin

  Running, Thinking, Giving

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.291, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The day I'm able to be debt-free is the day I'm going to be the happiest guy around.

  Steve Garvey

  Guy, Debt, Able

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• It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Hard Times, Debtors, Ruined

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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• The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Running, Lying, Vices

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.291, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• 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

  Hard Times, Men, Cities

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, July 13, 1879.

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• I see light at the end of the tunnel.

  Walt Whitman Rostow

  Positive, Humor, Vegas

  Walt Whitman Rostow (1955). “Russia and China Under Communism”

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• But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Government, Years

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.93, Algora Publishing

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• You still need to save but being debt-free in retirement is and should be a goal.

  Michelle Singletary

  Retirement, Goal, Needs

  "Color of Money Live". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 21, 2016.

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• Many more people could ride out the storm-tossed waves in their economic lives if they had their year's supply of food…and were debt-free. Today we find that many have followed this counsel in reverse: they have at least a year's supply of debt and are food-free.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Religious, Years, Lds

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• I use my financial values to set my limitations. I have three children I want to put through college debt free. So that means I can't spend wildly or with disregard.

  Michelle Singletary

  Children, Mean, College

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• Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.

  David Wilkerson

  Ministry, Debt, Finance

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• I have a plan to make tuition debt-free for public colleges and universities.

  Hillary Clinton

  College, Tuition, Plans

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I want to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for everyone else.

  Hillary Clinton

  College, Class, Tuition

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• I believe capital gains, for the most part, should be taxed the same way we tax income from hard work, sweat, and toil. And if we do those things, we can be a country that actually can afford debt-free college again.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Believe, Hard Work

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think building the middle class, investing in the middle class, making college debt-free so more young people can get their education, helping people refinance their - their debt from college at a lower rate. Those are the kinds of things that will really boost the economy.

  Donald Trump

  College, Thinking, Class

  Source: time.com

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• I want us to do more to support people who are struggling to balance family and work. I've heard from so many of you about the difficult choices you face and the stresses that you're under. So let's have paid family leave, earned sick days. Let's be sure we have affordable child care and debt-free college.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Stress, Struggle

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I want to make college debt-free and for families making less than $125,000, you will not get a tuition bill from a public college or university if the plan that I worked on with Bernie Sanders is enacted.

  Hillary Clinton

  College, Tuition, Want

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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