DEBT QUOTES IV

quotations about debt

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

ALEXANDER HAMILTON

letter to Robert Morris, Apr. 30, 1781


Debt haunts the mind; a conversation about justice troubles it; the sight of a creditor fills it with confusion; even the sanctuary is not a place of refuge.

DR. CHARTERY

The London and Paris Observer, 1826


What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

DAVID GRAEBER

Debt: The First 5,000 Years


Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

BIBLE

Matthew 6:12


Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

J. REUBEN CLARK

Selected Papers on Religion


A debt that will be used to start a business opportunity is the only time that I ever encourage people to borrow money.

CHINKEE TAN

"Stay out of bad debt", Tempo, July 11, 2019