Debt Quotes - Page 16

• In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

  George Bancroft

  Men, Knowing, History

  George Bancroft (1875). “History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent”, p.59

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• The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth

  David Mitchell

  Way, Wealth, Best Way

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• The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

  Susan George

  World, Culprit, Crisis

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• Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent: today the United States doesn't like Iraq, tomorrow Syria, then Iran, North Korea and then what: everyone else?

  Robin Cook

  Brother, Iran, Korea

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• But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.

  David Axelrod

  Kids, Ideas, Long

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• Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.

  James Grant

  Investing, Borrowers, Lenders

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• The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

  Ross Perot

  Business, Crazy, Aunt

  Ross Perot (1992). “United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country”

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• If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.

  Joe Walsh

  Jobs, Trying, Addresses

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• The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.

  James Grant

  Sex, Hangover, 1960s

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• What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?

  Edward Young

  Revenge, Self, Honor

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• But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.

  Lord Byron

  Years, Evil, Balance

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Debtors, Occupation

  Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. Proposition for compiling and amendment of our laws. II. Offer of a digest of the laws. III. Elements, or, Maxims and use of the common law. IV. Cases of treason. V. Four arguments in law ... VI. Draught of an act. VII. Ordinances in chancery. VIII. Reading on the statute of uses. IX. Resuscitatio ... X. Charges. XI. Speeches. XII. Observations on a libel, &c. XIII. Report of Lopez's treason. XI”, p.15

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• The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd. For death is a debt, A debt on demand. So take what I owe.

  John Gay

  Judging, Demand, Lawyer

  John Gay (1818). “The beggar's opera. Oxberry's ed”, p.80

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• Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

  Francis Bacon

  Usa, Liberty, Modern Life

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

  Stephen King

  Pain, Debt Free, Two

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

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• I want people to be inspired! To remember how hard-fought the battle for the vote was, the debt we owe to women who paved the way for this more egalitarian society we live in, how critical it is to use our vote and to be counted.

  Sarah Gavron

  People, Battle, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt and the moment is the death of Richard The Lionheart... Richard takes an arrow in the neck collecting a small debt from a small castle on his way home from the Crusades because he's penniless.

  Ridley Scott

  Real, Home, Arrows

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.

  Lucrecia Martel

  Mother, Stories, Oral Tradition

  "'Headless Woman' Director Lucrecia Martel: My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition". Interview with Eugene Hernandez, www.indiewire.com. August 20, 2009.

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• My mother was being hounded by a debt collector over a debt that she didn't owe, and she eventually just paid it because she wanted the calls to stop. I was very surprised. It sounded so strange. I started poking around on the internet and found this was extremely common. There was this world where these debts were sold off by the banks for pennies on the dollar and bought and sold.

  Jake Halpern

  Mother, World, Pennies

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was interested in this relationship between the armed robber and the banker who were from different worlds but had similar goals. It was kind of a metaphor for this larger marriage of the banks selling off their debt and these street guys scrapping over it.

  Jake Halpern

  Goal, Guy, Bankers

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Imagine having "no chain of titles for cars, no VIN numbers, and no DMV. There'd be total chaos! But that's basically the system for debt.

  Jake Halpern

  Numbers, Car, Titles

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend.

  Billie Jean King

  Interview with Jonathan Scott, www.tennis.com. December 17, 2013.

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• When you are in debt, then you are a slave.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Slave

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• People who buy government debt deserve to be punished and taught a lesson

  Doug Casey

  Government, People, Taught

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• In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.

  Jack Kemp

  America, Saving, Employment

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