“Folks, I don't want my president to leave office with a $10 trillion deficit. I don't want China to own more of our country through our debt.”
Zach Wamp
“Debt is the slavery of the free”
Publilius Syrus
“A man in debt is so far a slave.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Debt is simply selling a future to buy a present.”
Anonymus
“I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.”
Thomas Jefferson
“We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much”
Ronald Reagan
“The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should betempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands shouldbe curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. 55 B.C.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
