Roy Blunt Quotes

In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.

People paid their 3 percent a month interest without considering it excessive.

If you lend money to any of my people that is poor by you, you shall not be a usurer to him, nor shall you lay upon him usury.

If you have a lot of short-term debt, it means that all of that money can be demanded in a very short period of time. Technically, short-term debt means money that's coming due within a year. Typically, it means money that's coming due within 30 to 90 days.

I never did buy things on credit, I always paid for 'em, because I can't see much difference in paying for something and just waiting a week and pay interest on it; that looks foolish to me.

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.

I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself.

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.

Borrowed money, even when owing to a nation by another nation, should be repaid. They hired the money, didn't they? Let them pay it.

Treasury notes are a precarious substitute either for coin or for bank notes, charges as they are with a growing interest, productive of no countervailing profit or emolument, and exposed to every breadth of popular prejudice or alarm.

Moneys imployed at Interest in this Nation, are not near the Tenth part, disposed to Trading People, wherewith to manage their Trades; but are for the most part lent for the supplying of Luxury, and to support the Expence of Persons, who though great Owners of Lands, yet spend faster than their Lands bring in; and being loath to sell, choose rather to mortgage their Estates.

Would you know what money is, go borrow some.

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.

We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time.

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.

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

I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.