Herbert Hoover

Debts are like children: the smaller they are the more noise they make.

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.

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

Only debt is forever.

Some people use one half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

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

Owing money has never concerned me so long as I know where it could be repaid.

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

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

Good times are when people make debts to pay in bad times.

I took my power back, like, ‘Man, my financial situation don’t make me.’ I’m in debt – now what? And I’m still Ye.- Kanye West

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

Ten million dollars after I’d become a star I was deeply in debt.

If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

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.