Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them

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

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

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes read more

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of read more

Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic

And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our read more

And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.

Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.