To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin
Debt is the worst poverty.
Thomas Fuller
By issuing our own money we can eliminate all income taxes and employment taxes and the national debt would cease to exist.
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I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other.
James Madison
A promise is a debt.
Proverb
A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Debt is the slavery of the free
Publilius Syrus
Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt.
Proverb
Out of debt, out of danger.
Proverb
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
Thomas Carlyle
The second vice is lying; the first is running in debt.
Benjamin Franklin
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.
William M. Kucmierowski
Many of the great achievements in history that are commonly attributed to one geo-cultural domain often owe a great debt to those of others. In this sense, some of the greatest achievements of human civilisation have been collective efforts and are part of the same human story.
Nayef Al-Rodhan