Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation...it is never laid off work...it buys no food; it wears no clothes; it is unhoused... it has neither weddings nor births nor deaths; it has no love, no sympathy; it is as hard and soulless as a granite cliff. Once in debt, it is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it...and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

When you have a debt that's strangling you, you're not growing.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

There are 43 million people who are locked into predatory student loan debt, from which there is no exit.

As a young single mum struggling to get by, I didn't get to go to university, but that level of debt would have been unimaginable.

My family didn't have lots of money or anything.

Too often, borrowers who need quick cash end up trapped in loans they can't afford.

My parents are not of this world. I've had to work multiple jobs, been in a position where I cannot pay off student loans.

I didn't take the money route because I saw my parents struggle for survival.

It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

I just want to note that 43 million young people in debt is enough to win a three-way Presidential race.

The problem is that people basically dangle debt in front of us. And the cost for the poor of course is much higher than for the wealthy.

Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent.

The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.

Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet.

Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.