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Debt Quotes - Page 6

There are 43 million people who are locked into predatory student loan debt, from which there is no exit.

"Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.

"George McGovern: Barack Obama, Democrats Need a Backbone". Interview with Kira Zalan, www.usnews.com. December 2, 2011.

There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.

Philip Yancey (2005). “Finding God in Unexpected Places: Revised and Updated”, p.195, WaterBrook

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.231

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

"Pantagruel". Book by Francois Rabelais, Book III, Chapter V, 1532.

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.235, Penguin

A man in debt is so far a slave.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.346

Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.760, Delphi Classics

In salvation, God both declares us guilty and pays our debt. Only he can satisfy his own requirements. A savior less than God would be disqualified; God must do it himself.

Erwin W. Lutzer “The Doctrines That Divide: A Fresh Look at the Historic Doctrines That Separate Christians”, Kregel Publications

Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?

Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.88, Moody Publishers