Russian Proverb

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

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

A Debt Problem Is, At Its Core, a Budgeting Problem.

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

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

Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

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…

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

Debt is the slavery of the free.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend.

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

Rather go to bed supperless, than rise in debt.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man’s surety.

We all think we’re going to get out of debt.