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The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy .

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity

We don't need to drive up the national debt by giving tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires.

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

When you get the economy growing, that's when you can deal with the national debt.

The current tax code is a daily mugging.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

A responsible government does not triple the national debt in eight years.

I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

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.

If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?

Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?

The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.

Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied in every bond issue is a false promise.

The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.

What were you two doing last night, discussing the national debt?

Examine the legacy that we inherited and what we did. We had boom-and-bust economics and a doubled national debt.

The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have dire consequences for Social Security and Medicare.

Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have.

We don't want to put up the money. We owe almost $20 trillion. Doubled since [Barack] Obama took office, our national debt.But we will get the money from Gulf states and others.

I will bring our energy companies back. They'll be able to compete. They'll make money. They'll pay off our national debt. They'll pay off our tremendous budget deficits, which are tremendous.

We have, during his regime, during President Obama's regime, we've doubled our national debt. We're up to $20 trillion.

I think if we give Glenn Beck the numbers, he can solve this [the national debt].

We ought to pay down the national debt, ... The American people are tired of people who make promises about cutting taxes that they cannot keep.

My pan plays down an unprecedented amount of our national debt.

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

Bless the children, for the national debt is theirs.

Donald Trump got himself very far to the left. When he was considering running for president in 2000, he was for a 13 percent wealth tax on wealthy people to retire the national debt.

I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.

I do not add a penny to the national debt.

Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

You [Donald Trump] call yourself the King of Debt. You talk about leverage. You even at one time suggested that you would try to negotiate down the national debt of the United States.

According to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, Donald Trump's tax plan is going to increase the national debt by more than 50 percent over ten years.

Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American Ground?

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Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?