Debt quotes

Explore insightful quotes on debt, offering words of wisdom, inspiration, and guidance for managing finances, overcoming debt burdens, and paving the path towards financial freedom.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

- Will Rogers

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

- Ralph W. Sockman

Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.

- John Perkins

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.

- John Perkins

Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare.

- Ron Paul

Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

- Olivier Sarkozy

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

- Robert Service

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

- Rutherford B. Hayes

I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.

- George Gaylord Simpson

She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted.

- David Brin

Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful.

- John Perkins

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.

- John Perkins

The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia - new cities, new infrastructure - which we've done.

- John Perkins

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

- Sammy Davis, Jr.

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

- Tom Harkin

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

- Daniel Hannan

Our ministry is debt free and we have not had to beg or plead for finances.

- David Wilkerson

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

- Barack Obama

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

- Gwen Ifill