A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.

The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her.

Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves.

Happy is he who owes nothing.

Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.

My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.

And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.

He that dies pays all debts.