Quotes On Debt – Part 2
A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
If I owe Smith ten dollars, and God forgives me, that doesn’t pay Smith.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about “a public debt being a public blessing”; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture.
– Thomas Jeffereson On Public Debts, in a letter to John W. Epps
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
-Samuel Johnson
Debt is the worst poverty.
-Magnus Gottfried Lichtwer
Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
– Moliere
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
– Wendell Phillips