“It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity”
Frank Zappa
“Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, ''If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.”
Benjamin Franklin
“A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.”
Ralph W. Sockman
“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
“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”
