Debt Quotes - Page 10

• A man in debt is so far a slave.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Slave

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.346

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• I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

  Alexander the Great

  Fathers Day, Teacher, Appreciation

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• The decision to go into debt alters the course and condition of your life. You no longer own it. You are owned.

  Dave Ramsey

  Decision, Courses, Conditions

  FaceBook post by Dave Ramsey from Sep 06, 2013

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• We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government Welfare, Government Debt, Historical

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.26, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation...it is never laid off work...it buys no food; it wears no clothes; it is unhoused... it has neither weddings nor births nor deaths; it has no love, no sympathy; it is as hard and soulless as a granite cliff. Once in debt, it is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it...and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Crush, Holiday, Sleep

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• 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

  Slave Owners, Debtors, Dignity

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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, Debt Free

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

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• 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?"

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Mean, Conceited

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2148, Delphi Classics

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• Debt creates stress, stress creates behaviors that don't lead to happiness.

  Seth Godin

  Stress, Health, Inspire

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• Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Bait, Traps

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.180

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• The time has come to end this charade. The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves. Africa should say: 'thank you very much but we need this money to meet the needs of children who are dying right now so we will put the debt servicing payments into urgent social investment in health, education, drinking water, control of AIDS and other needs.'

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Time, Children, Drinking

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• It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers most of the purposes of money. Transfers of stock, or public debt, are there equivalent to payments in specie; or, in other words, stock, in the principal transactions of business, passes current as specie. The same thing would, in all probability, happen here, under the like circumstances.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Country, Purpose, Answers

  Alexander Hamilton, Lyndon LaRouche (2016). “The Vision of Hamilton: Hamilton's 4 Reports and LaRouche's 4 Laws”, p.10, Executive Intelligence Review

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• This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy--a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation--in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mean, Government, Law

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• No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.

  Thomas Paine

  Bears, Cases, Grievance

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.27, Ravenio Books

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• If you're thinking of debt, that's what you're going to attract.

  Bob Proctor

  Thinking, Law Of Attraction, Ifs

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• We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the IMF and the World Bank to reduce and eventually eliminate the debt that takes poor nations' resources away from crises like AIDS. We must focus America's leadership on addressing and ending this epidemic.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Epidemics, Agreement, America

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• If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means. And if there is any one thing that is grinding and discouraging and disheartening, it is to have debts and obligations that one cannot meet.

  Heber J. Grant

  Heart, Mean, Contentment

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• I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.

  Andrew Jackson

  Men

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1931). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: 1833-1838”

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• Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

  Mark Twain

  Worry, Might, Interest

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• In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really, what I pointed out, which is that when he left office, we actually had projected surpluses for a long period of time, because when he put together his economic plan, he did it in a balanced way.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Numbers, Issues, Long

  "Rep. Van Hollen: President has acted on economic issues". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. September 6, 2012.

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• The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.

  Alan Greenspan

  Zero, United States, Pay

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• The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Offering, Suffering

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• Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.

  Hank Johnson

  Order, Benefits, Addresses

  "Social Security Is Not the Problem" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Too many Americans are out of work, and our debt is out of control.

  Susana Martinez

  "Paul Ryan Speaks at Republican National Convention". "Cnn Live Event/Special" with Wolf Blitzer and Erin Burnett, www.cnn.com. August 29, 2012.

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• We now have a president who tries to save money by turning off lights in the White House, even as he heads toward a staggering addition to the national debt. "L.B.J." should stand for Light Bulb Johnson.

  Barry Goldwater

  Light, White, House

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