Col. Henry Crown

If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I’m prepared to forget it if they are.

Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous.

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

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

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Let us live is as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time look around.

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

A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

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

Who goeth a borrowing. Goeth a sorrowing.

Only debt is forever.

Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. … It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits – all should share in the costs.

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