50 quotes found
“A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing.”
“Debt is the worst poverty.”
“...freedom is of more account than the height of a roof beam. I ought to know; mine cost me eighteen years' slavery. The man who lives on his own land is an independent man. He is his own master. I...”
“We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor an...”
“A promotion is an illusionary solution out of an indebted employee’s pit of debt.”
“Rosamond, accustomed from her childhood to an extravagant household, thought that good housekeeping consisted simply in ordering the best of everything––nothing else 'answered;' and Lydgate suppose...”
“He had been born into debt, as had his father and his father before him. Indenture and slavery were two words for the same thing.”
“Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath. I have no doubt that some of you who read this book are unable to pay for all the dinners wh...”
“If you want the time to pass quickly just give your note for 90 days.”
