Debt Quotes - Page 18

• We have a debt the size of our economy, which makes us look a lot like Greece.

  Mitch McConnell

  Looks, Size, Economy

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When after many battles past,
  Both tir'd with blows,
  make peace at last,
  What is it, after all, the people get?
  Why! taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.

  Francis Daniels Moore

  War, Blow, Past

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• A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet
  How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay!
  The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments
  (an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret)
  Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death.

  Lord Byron

  Suicide, Dream, Regret

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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• The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

  John Adams

  Country, Government, Growth

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.126

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• 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

  Powerful, Army, Administration

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• Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

  Michael Moore

  Mother, Gratitude, Army

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• Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but you have no right, in so doing, to treat the Humanists of the world with contempt. You owe them a deep debt of gratitude, for not only have they shed much light on a naturally dark world but they have very probably helped civilize your own specific religion.

  Steve Allen

  Gratitude, Religious, Atheist

  Steve Allen (2001). “Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture”

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• The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.

  John Piper

  Jesus, Happened, Died

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• By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Two, Redemption, Pay

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• I have serious concerns about whether it's prudent to give any foreign country substantial leverage over the U.S. economy. Instead of spending $80 billion on important programs here at home, we're sending this money overseas just to pay interest on our debt.

  Tim Johnson

  Country, Home, Giving

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• On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging.

  Robert Hughes

  Artist, Ideas, Water

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.165, Vintage

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Military, Emergencies, Administration

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.564, Penguin UK

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• Congratulations to Obama! He's now increased the debt more in three years than George W. Bush did his entire eight year presidency. But all that spending was worth it because just look at the great results! So what exactly is the argument that Obama isn't a hugely incompetent failure? So far it's 'Look! Over there! A war on women!'

  Frank J. Fleming

  Congratulations, War, Exactly Is

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