In honor of the United States’ insanely immature economic policy-making, this week’s quotes are devoted to debt, thrift, greed, and indecision.

Debt is the slavery of the free.
- Publilius Syrus

Debts and lies are generally mixed together
- Francois Rabelais

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
- Ambrose Bierce

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
- Wendell Phillips

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
- Herbert Hoover

Creditors have better memories than debtors.
- Benjamin Franklin

Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.
- Will Rogers

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy
- Publilius Syrus

If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.
- John Maynard Keynes

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
- Moliere

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people”
- Wendell Phillips