Debt is dumb. Cash is king.
Debt is normal. Be weird.
It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.
One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can’t pay back.
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open enemies.
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…
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
Debt can turn a free, happy person into a bitter human being.
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.
[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce 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.
If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
A Debt Problem Is, At Its Core, a Budgeting Problem.
A church debt is the devil’s salary.
