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“In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.”

Men Nations United Liberty History Knowing Highest England Debt Not Knowing Provinces British History Netherlands

Book:History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent

Source: History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American Continent

“The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth”

Way Wealth Debt Best Way

Author:David Mitchell

“The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.”

World Crisis Debt Culprit World Bank Debt Crisis

Author:Susan George

“Saddam is neither friend nor brother to us, and he will never pay off debts to us. It's the question of precedent: today the United States doesn't like Iraq, tomorrow Syria, then Iran, North Korea and then what: everyone else?”

States Today United Pay United States Brother Tomorrow Iraq Debt Usa Iran Syria Saddam Korea North Korea Precedent

Author:Robin Cook

“But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it.”

Needs Long Ideas Helping Problem Kids Term Deals Economy Debt Brilliant Long Term Good Ideas Brilliant Ideas

Author:David Axelrod

“Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.”

Investing Debt Lenders Borrowers

Author:James Grant

“The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.”

Knows Want Business Crazy Debt Neighbor Finance Aunt Basements

Book:United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country

Source: United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country

“I hold every man a debtor to his profession.”

Men Society Debt Profession Every Man Professionalism Amends Debtors

Author:Francis Bacon

“If you raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, you'll do nothing to address the debt and the deficit. And the thing you might do is you might finally put this economy over another cliff. These millionaires and billionaires are the folks that try to create jobs and help grow the economy.”

Ifs Trying Helping Might Jobs Grows Economy Taxes Raises Folks Debt Addresses Deficit Cliffs Millionaire Billionaire

Author:Joe Walsh

“The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.”

Left Sex Debt 1960s Hangover

Author:James Grant

“What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?”

Self Self Love Honor Debt Protection Revenge

Author:Edward Young

“But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.”

Years Evil Balance Draws Devil Conscience Accounts Debt Sixty Sixteen

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.”

Men Way Helping Courses Duty Ought Profit Debt Profession Every Man Occupation Endeavor Ornaments Countenance Amends Debtors

Book:Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. Proposition for compiling and amendment of our laws. II. Offer of a digest of the laws. III. Elements, or, Maxims and use of the common law. IV. Cases of treason. V. Four arguments in law ... VI. Draught of an act. VII. Ordinances in chancery. VIII. Reading on the statute of uses. IX. Resuscitatio ... X. Charges. XI. Speeches. XII. Observations on a libel, &c. XIII. Report of Lopez's treason. XI

Source: Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. Proposition for compiling and amendment of our laws. II. Offer of a digest of the laws. III. Elements, or, Maxims and use of the common law. IV. Cases of treason. V. Four arguments in law ... VI. Draught of an act. VII. Ordinances in chancery. VIII. Reading on the statute of uses. IX. Resuscitatio ... X. Charges. XI. Speeches. XII. Observations on a libel, &c. XIII. Report of Lopez's treason. XI

“The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met; The judges all ranged (a terrible show!) I go, undismay'd. For death is a debt, A debt on demand. So take what I owe.”

Shows Judging Terrible Mets Demand Prepared Debt Lawyer

Book:The beggar's opera. Oxberry's ed

Source: The beggar's opera. Oxberry's ed

“Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.”

Persons Born Liberty Share Modern Debt Usa Modern Life National Debt

Author:Francis Bacon

“I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free.”

Two Pain Debt Amazing Things Debt Free

Author:Stephen King

“I want people to be inspired! To remember how hard-fought the battle for the vote was, the debt we owe to women who paved the way for this more egalitarian society we live in, how critical it is to use our vote and to be counted.”

People Way Want Hard Use Remember Battle Vote Inspired Critical Debt Be Inspired

Author:Sarah Gavron

“You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt and the moment is the death of Richard The Lionheart... Richard takes an arrow in the neck collecting a small debt from a small castle on his way home from the Crusades because he's penniless.”

Way Real Enough Moments Home Steps England Debt Necks Sensible You Choose Castles Arrows Collecting Steps Forward Crusades Way Home

Author:Ridley Scott

“My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.”

World Stories Mother Materials Conversation Tradition Debt Storytelling Discussion Grandmother Repetition My Grandmother Misunderstanding Oral Tradition Condensation

Author:Lucrecia Martel

“My mother was being hounded by a debt collector over a debt that she didn't owe, and she eventually just paid it because she wanted the calls to stop. I was very surprised. It sounded so strange. I started poking around on the internet and found this was extremely common. There was this world where these debts were sold off by the banks for pennies on the dollar and bought and sold.”

World Wanted Mother Found Common This World Strange Internet Paid Dollars Debt Pennies Collectors

Author:Jake Halpern

“I was interested in this relationship between the armed robber and the banker who were from different worlds but had similar goals. It was kind of a metaphor for this larger marriage of the banks selling off their debt and these street guys scrapping over it.”

World Kind Different Guy Goal Streets Metaphor Debt Selling Over It Bankers Different Worlds Robbers These Streets

Author:Jake Halpern

“Imagine having "no chain of titles for cars, no VIN numbers, and no DMV. There'd be total chaos! But that's basically the system for debt.”

Numbers Imagine Car Chaos Debt Chains Titles

Author:Jake Halpern

“Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend.”

Author:Billie Jean King

“When you are in debt, then you are a slave.”

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“People who buy government debt deserve to be punished and taught a lesson”

People Government Taught Lessons Deserve Debt Government Debt

Author:Doug Casey

“In America, we tax work, investment, employment, savings, and production, while we subsidize non-work, consumption, and debt. It's time we reverse this trend.”

America Taxes Investment Productions Debt Employment Saving Trends Consumption Reverse Savings

Author:Jack Kemp

“It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt.”

Long War Spirit Suffering Horror Debt Enormous Oppression Incurring

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.”

Children Debt Bless National Debt

Author:Herbert Hoover

“I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.”

Children Our Children Refuse Debt Broken Promises Breaking Promises Promises That Are Broken

Author:Barack Obama

“At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.”

World Country Debt Our Country Contracts Immense Discharge

Book:The Spirit of Laws

Source: The Spirit of Laws

“Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency.”

Nations Economic Military Complexes Excuse Debt Administration Emergencies Plunge Treasury Gop Wartime Military Industrial Complex

Book:Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

Source: Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson

“The top threat that gets very little focus from Washington these days is what Adm. Mike Mullen identified as the biggest threat to the U.S.: the American debt.”

Littles Focus Threat Debt These Days Mike

Author:Mark Sanford

“Congratulations to Obama! He's now increased the debt more in three years than George W. Bush did his entire eight year presidency. But all that spending was worth it because just look at the great results! So what exactly is the argument that Obama isn't a hugely incompetent failure? So far it's 'Look! Over there! A war on women!'”

Years Looks War Three Results Argument Eight Debt Spending Three Years Worth It Presidency Congratulations Incompetent Great Results Exactly Is

Author:Frank J. Fleming

“Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.”

Debt Equity Static

Author:Edmund Burke

“If you look at all the lobbyists in Washington, this is not a democracy. This is ruled by special interest groups. That includes the military, the pharmaceutical industry, the people who produce mechanized debt, GMO foods. We are prisoners.”

“In terms of sources coming forward, I really reject this idea of talking about one, two, three sources. There are many sources that have informed the reporting we've done and I think that Americans owe them a debt of gratitude for taking the risk they do.”

Thinking Two Ideas Done Three Term Talking Risk Source Gratitude Debt Rejects Debt Of Gratitude

Author:Laura Poitras

“This is not a matter of subjective theory, but of plain, historical fact. If there had never been a nation of Israel, there would have been no patriarchs, no prophets, no apostles, no Bible and no Saviour. In John 4:22, Jesus Himself summed all this up in one simple statement: "Salvation is from the Jews." Christians from all other racial backgrounds owe to the Jewish people a spiritual debt which can never be calculated.”

“While the path to wealth is clearly marked, few are willing to adapt themselves to the modest discipline that the journey requires. Instead, most choose the shinier track of debt-driven consumption, which they find further along is covered in vines and thorns.”

Wealth Path Journey Willing Discipline Track Debt Driven Covered Consumption Modest Thorns Vines

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.”

Political Leader Class Middle Benefits Vote Increase Majority Debt Middle Class Dislike Soar Political Leaders National Debt

Author:Oliver DeMille

“If Americans are frustrated with Congress, imagine their frustration with a group of international bank officials running our ecomomy-bankers who may not have as their motive either to see us out of debt to them or to strengthen our economy, society, international influence, or other elements of our way of life.”

Ifs Way May Running Economy Imagine Groups Influence Elements International Congress Debt Motive Officials Frustration Frustrated Bankers

Author:Oliver DeMille

“Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.”

Discovery Fundamentals Debt Cinema Thieves Bicycle Triumphant Chaplin

Author:Satyajit Ray

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

Kids Huge Folks Debt Rays Bradbury Madeleines

Author:Karen Russell

“Nobody can solve debt problems like me.”

Problem Solve Debt Like Me

Author:Donald Trump

“Enormous forces are affecting the world, and we can't possibly overestimate their importance. These include demographic developments, climate change, digitalization and the rise of Asia. And then there's the most important one: the end of a life lived on credit. We must finally free ourselves from debt.”

World Important Ends Force Development Importance Climate Climate Change Credit Debt Enormous Asia Demographics Overestimate

Author:Paul Achleitner

“Debt is not intrinsically bad. But I make clear to my children that they should only borrow as much as they will be able to pay back.”

Should Children Able Pay Clear Debt My Children

Author:Paul Achleitner

“Greece's debts are all denominated in euros, but it isn't clear who holds how much of those debts. For that reason, the consequences of a national bankruptcy would be incalculable. Greece is just as systemically important as a major bank.”

Important Reason Would Be Clear Majors Consequence Debt Greece Bankruptcy Euro

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.”

Want Children Pay Debt France My Children Successors

Author:Francois Hollande

“To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay off the debt. That's wrong, but neither the U.S. nor Europe has a plan to stop it.”

Government Winning Pay Plans Generations Politician Cost Europe Election Leaving Debt Spending Endless Covered Taxpayers Government Spending Covered Up

Author:David Malpass

“I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. That can only work in the longer-term. I want euro bonds to be used to finance targeted investments in future-oriented growth projects. It isn't the same thing. Let's call them 'project bonds' instead of euro bonds.”

Want Country Used Growth Term Projects Investment Debt Finance Zone Euro

Author:Francois Hollande

“A global financial cabal engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble [2008], illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the US; and used 'privatization' as a form of piracy - a pretext to move government assets to private investors at below-market prices and then shift private liabilities back to government at no cost to the private liability holder Clearly, there was a global financial coup d'etat underway.”

Government Moving Form Used Amount Cost Financial Debt Assets Investors Bubbles Housing Pretext Liability Piracy Coups Privatization Cabal

Author:Catherine Austin Fitts