Thomas Jefferson

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

In matters of style, swim with the current;In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.

Never spend your money before you have it.

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

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

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

You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.

If you’re trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

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

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

Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

Even when I tweeted that I was in debt, that gave me power.

There are some debts that can’t be paid with money.

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.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.