Quotes by Debt My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole. Adam Sandler fund debt kids Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt. Addison Wiggin debt united-states real As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit. Aiden Wilson Tozer debt guilt grace Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts. Alain de Botton debt love-and-friendship and-love The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default. Alan Greenspan debt united-states zero The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion. Alan Greenspan debt finance long I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy: it keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes. Alan Greenspan debt real long Any onset of increased investor caution elevates risk premiums and, as a consequence, lowers asset values and promotes the liquidation of the debt that supported higher asset prices, ... This is the reason that history has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums. Alan Greenspan aftermath debt risk I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign. Alan Keyes debt campaigns We may end up with a world based more on equity than debt, or more on market debt instruments than bank intermediation; but how and why we get there is a mystery. Absent significant regulatory or tax changes, and a sharp transition could be disruptive. Alan M. Taylor debt transition world Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society. Albert Einstein debt invention bankers To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged. Albert Einstein debt age long Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. Aldous Huxley debt three civilization I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground. Alex Haley library debt today I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year. Alexander Brome debt drink years One of my big inspirations was Céleste Mogador. She was a courtesan who wrote her memoirs in order to pay off her debts, which is a hilarious gesture. Alexander Chee debt inspiration order As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from foreign danger, or to secure individuals from lawless violence and rapine. Alexander Hamilton debt taxation government Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality, you unhinge all the principles that must preserve the limits of free constitutions. Alexander Hamilton debt government principles There are respectable individuals, who from a just aversion to an accumulation of Public debt, are unwilling to concede to it any kind of utility, who can discern no good to alleviate the ill with which they suppose it pregnant; who cannot be persuaded that it ought in any sense to be viewed as an increase of capital lest it should be inferred, that the more debt the more capital, the greater the burthens the greater the blessings of the community. Alexander Hamilton debt community blessing [S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts. Alexander Hamilton debt policy practice 1234567891011»