Debt Quotes - Page 7

• If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

  Earl Wilson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Hard Times, Debt Free, Debtors

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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• It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, War, Government Debt

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.184, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Errors, Humanity, Triumph

  James Madison, Thomas Jefferson (1835). “Resolutions of Virginia and Kentucky”, p.53

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• It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one.

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Ideas, Giving

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.48, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Thoughtful, Play

  Carl Jung (2016). “Psychological Types”, p.88, Routledge

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• Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

  William Wycherley

  Hate, Poet

  William Wycherley, Peter Dixon (1998). “Country Wife and Other Plays”, p.290, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

  Mitch McConnell

  Years, Usa, Four

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• The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, America, Effort

  "It's Worth Actually Reading Obama's 2006 Debt Ceiling Speech". www.slate.com. October 09, 2013.

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• I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

  Barack Obama

  Office, Waiting, Oval

  "Obama fires up House Democrats to help push through stimulus bill". www.cnn.com. February 6, 2009.

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• It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

  Joel Osteen

  Pay, Bills, Poverty

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• Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare.

  Ron Paul

  Medicare, Exploding

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• Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

  Francois Rabelais

  Lying, Together

  "Pantagruel". Book by Francois Rabelais, Book III, Chapter V, 1532.

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• When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

  Bill Ballance

  Love, Funny Relationship, Men

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• I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Loyalty, Museums, Best Place

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• Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

  Will Rogers

  Worry, May, Dues

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• Education : a debt due from present to future generations.

  George Peabody

  Education, Generations, Future Generation

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• We all think we're going to get out of debt.

  Louie Anderson

  Thinking

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• I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

  James Madison

  Government, Principles, Goes On

  Letter to Henry Lee, 13 Apr. 1790

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• Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Money, Guarantees That

  Little Dorrit bk. 1, ch. 23 (1857)

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• An honest man is in Hell when he is in debt.

  J. Golden Kimball

  Men, Honest, Financial

  J. Golden Kimball (2008). “J. Golden Kimball: His Sermons”, p.273, Latter-day Publishing

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• The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

  Theodore T. Munger

  Brother, Poverty, Twins

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• Bad debt is sacrificing your future day needs for your present day desires.

  Suze Orman

  Sacrifice, Desire, Needs

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• If you want to pay off your debts, it pays to increase your earning power.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Want, Pay, Earning

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  When you get in debt you become a slave.

  Andrew Jackson

  Slave

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

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