“The problem with foreign debt emerges as the most serious obstacle. We are indebted in billions of dollars,”
Ayad Allawi
“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
“To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.”
Benjamin Franklin
“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
“A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.”
Ralph W. Sockman
“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
“It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.”
Albert Einstein
