P. J. O’Rourke

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

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

He that dies pays all debts.

Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well.

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

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

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

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.

If you’re thinking of debt, that’s what you’re going to attract.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

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

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

I took my power back, like, ‘Man, my financial situation don’t make me.’ I’m in debt – now what? And I’m still Ye.- Kanye West