Col. Henry Crown

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

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.

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.

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

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

Debt on anything that depreciates is disastrous.

It is very iniquitous to make me pay debts, you have no idea, of the pain it gives one.

If you have debt I’m willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

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

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

Interest on debts grow without rain.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

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