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The first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to the Creator and Preserver those acknowledgments which are due to Him for our being and the hourly protection He affords us.

The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

The government can reasonably rely on debt ratings when it forms programs to lend money to buyers of otherwise unattractive debt instruments.

The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

The grateful person fears no court or judge, no sentence or executioner, but what he carries about him in his own breast: and being still the most severe exactor of himself, not only confesses but proclaims his debts.

The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.

The greatest threat to our national security is our debt. We borrow a million dollars a minute.

The great Mediator asks for our repentance not because we must ‘repay’ him in exchange for his paying our debt to justice, but because repentance initiates a developmental process that, with the Savior’s help, leads us along the path to a saintly character

The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.

The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.

The ingenious slogan that the public debt does not matter because 'we owe it to ourselves' is clearly absurd.

The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.

The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

The nation is prosperous on the whole, but how much prosperity is there in a hole?

The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .

The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families cannot raise money by fiat or deflate the size of their debt unilaterally and that family members die instead of existing infinitely.

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

The oldest and most important currency is debt.

... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psychology, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.

The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.

The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.

The only thing socialists produce is debt and self-esteem

The people of Maine were tired of being in debt and tired of being overtaxed.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

The price decline is a result of having to pay debts. That drains income from the circular flow between production and consumption - that is, between what people are paid when they go to work, and the things that they buy.

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

The quickest and easiest way to screw up your life is to take on too much debt.

The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.

There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.

There are 43 million people who are locked into predatory student loan debt, from which there is no exit.

There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts.

There are respectable individuals, who from a just aversion to an accumulation of Public debt, are unwilling to concede to it any kind of utility, who can discern no good to alleviate the ill with which they suppose it pregnant; who cannot be persuaded that it ought in any sense to be viewed as an increase of capital lest it should be inferred, that the more debt the more capital, the greater the burthens the greater the blessings of the community.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time.

There is a lot of fiscal conservatives in the United States senate that didn't vote for that because we understand that national security spending is not the reason why we have a debt. Our debt is being driven by the way Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and, by the way, the interest on the debt is structured in the years to come.

There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

There's nothing as short as short-term debt.

The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we'll have so much debt to finance, we'll either have to have inflation or very high interest rates to continue to borrow the money, or both. That's a risk.

There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.

There's one other element I just want to be sure to mention here: that is that there are 43 million young people who are locked into predatory student loan debt for whom there is no way out in the foreseeable future given the economy that we have: this predatory Wall Street driven financialized low-wage service industry economy.

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.

The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape the man that I am today. My debt to him is invaluable.