Debt Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Debt


I hold every man a debtor to his profession. Bacon—Maxims of the Law. Preface.	1
I owe you one. George Colman, the Younger—The Poor Gentleman. Act I. 2.	2
Anticipated rents, and bills unpaid, Force many a shining youth into the shade, Not to redeem his time, but his estate, And play the fool, but at the cheaper rate. Cowper—Retirement. L. 559.	3
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill! Emerson—Suum Cuique.	4
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. Alex. Hamilton—Letter to Robert Morris. April 30, 1781.	5
At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about “a public debt being a public blessing”; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. Thomas Jefferson—On Public Debts. Letter to John W. Epps. Nov. 6, 1813.	6
The slender debt to Nature’s quickly paid, Discharged, perchance with greater ease than made. Quarles—Emblems. Bk. II. Emblem 13.	7
Debtes et mensonges sont ordinairement ensemble ralliés. Debts and lies are generally mixed together. Rabelais—Pantagruel. Bk. III. Ch. V.	8
Our national debt a national blessing. Samuel Wilkerson. Used as a broadside issued by Jay Cooke, June, 1865. Qualified by H. C. Fahnstock, “How our national debt may be a national blessing.”	9