Robert G. Ingersoll

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

You loan your friend money. You see them again, they don’t say nothin’ ’bout the money. ‘Hi, how ya doin’? How’s ya mama doing?’ Man, how’s my money doin’?

A church debt is the devil’s salary.

A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.

I’m in debt. I am a true American!

If you have debt I’m willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

In the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our survival.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse.

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

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man; a debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Debt, we’ve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains – pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies – but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.