Austin O’Malley

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.

In the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our survival.

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

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

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

A decent society wouldn’t push millions of student into debt. It would recognize that higher education isn’t mainly a personal investment. It is a public good.

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

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

Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.