Benjamin Franklin

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

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

Time is the stuff life is made of.

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

A church debt is the devil’s salary.

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.

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.

There are some debts that can’t be paid with money.

It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

We all think we’re going to get out of 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.

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

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can’t pay back.

A Debt Problem Is, At Its Core, a Budgeting Problem.

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