Benjamin Disraeli

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound.

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man; a debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

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

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

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it’s much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

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.

Debt certainly isn’t always a bad thing. A mortgage can help you afford a home. Student loans can be a necessity in getting a good job. Both are investments worth making, and both come with fairly low interest rates.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous.

A man must cut down his outgoings and save his incomings if he wants to clear himself; you can’t spend your penny and pay debts with it too. Stint the kitchen if the purse is bare. Don’t believe in any way of wiping out debts except by paying hard cash. Promises make debts, and debts make promises, but promises never pay debts…

The impulse dances inside the debt.