Rutherford B. Hayes

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man’s surety.

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

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

To preserve their independence, we must not let our rules load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Debt is beautiful only after it is repaid.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Even when I tweeted that I was in debt, that gave me power.

Ten million dollars after I’d become a star I was deeply in debt.

Interest on debts grow without rain.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

Debt is the worst poverty.