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.
Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
I’m in debt. I am a true American!
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies.
Debt is the worst poverty.
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man; a debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound.
The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.
Only debt is forever.
Good times are when people make debts to pay in bad times.
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after.
Debt that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.
Let us live is as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time look around.
Debt is the slavery of the free.
If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous.
Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?
He who promises runs in debt.
