Bill Clinton

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

There are but two ways of paying debt-increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Debt is beautiful only after it is repaid.

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

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

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.

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

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.

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

A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.

Debt can turn a free, happy person into a bitter human being.

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

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt-habit is the twin brother of poverty.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity.