Debt is the slavery of the free.
- Publilius Syrus

The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded; each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much?
- Kin Hubbard

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
- George Herbert

No man’s credit is as good as his money.
- E.W. Howe

A man in debt is so far a slave.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.
- Bobby Scott

The impulse dances inside the debt.
- Jareb Teague

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.
- Karl Rove

If you have debt I’m willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.
- Suze Orman

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.
- Bill Gates

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.
- Henry Wadsworth

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.
- Bill Balance

There are plenty of ways to get ahead.  The first is so basic I’m almost embarrassed to say it:  spend less than you earn.
- Paul Clitheroe

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it’s much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.
- Susan George

Buy what thou hast no Need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy Necessaries.
- Benjamin Franklin

Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.
- Jennifer Dunn

I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.
- George Gaylord Simpson

I can tell you this, if it wasn’t for my book royalties, I’d be in debt.
- Benny Hinn

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.
- Gwen Ifill

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
- Leonard Orr

Death’s the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
- Seneca

If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that’s coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that’s coming due within 30 to 90 days.
- Jeffrey Sachs

And it’s also producing a growth in debt to the United States that will weight very heavily in a country that has to address issues like having more old people to be covered by Social Security or by pension in the future.
- Rodrigo Rato

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
- Benjamin Franklin

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
- Euripides

Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If our children have to pay the interest they will pay that interest to themselves.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.
- Will Rogers