Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you've paid your debt to society, you need to be reconnected and re-engaged in society.
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.
All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
Families out there know that if they get in trouble and they've spent up a bunch of money and they've borrowed and they are up to hock to their necks, the thing they've got to do is start paying off what they owe and cut back their spending.
As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.