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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

It may be said, let him take Money at Interest, and not buy at Time. But then Men must be found, that will lend; the Legislative must provide a Fund to borrow upon.

There is a limit to how much the United States Treasury can borrow.

A short squeeze could happen with the U.S. dollar if lenders suddenly forced debtors to pay in cash.

Just because someone will lend money to you doesn't mean you should borrow it.

Can't make your payments? No problem. The interest charges keep on coming. In fact, banks prefer it that way. More money for them. The government guarantees it.

It's wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can't pay it back?

There was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.