A Quote by Alexander Hamilton

[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.

Alexander Hamilton

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Debts Policy Practice

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Alexander Hamilton
American - Politician
January 11, 1755 - July 12, 1804

We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up debts for another day. To pay as you go, that policy is a safer business policy and a saner business policy, and we thought it was a saner national policy.

Scott Nearing

Since taking office in 2008, the Barrow Administration failed to stimulate the necessary economic growth. Instead they have, over the more than four years, continued on a path of borrow and spend,accumulating huge additional debts.

Said Musa

There's a difference between responsibility of the policy and responsibility of the practice. In any practice, you have malpractice, that's another issue. When you talk about state and President, you always talk about the decisions and the policy.

Bashar al-Assad

But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.

Donald Cargill

Debt vultures are really the scum at the bottom of the pond. These are guys who buy up the debts of the world's poorest countries on the secondary market. You can go buy debts of a country like Peru, for example, at a real discount. Why? Because people think that the debts won't be repaid.

Noreena Hertz

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

Martin Luther

The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.

Aberjhani

The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.

Joyce Meyer

Countries that need monies so that they can provide health care and education and shelter to their people shouldn't have to repay debts that we knowingly lent to bad regimes long since gone; and all illegitimate debts - debts lent to these terrible dictators like Saddam Hussein, like Suharto, like Marcos - must also be canceled.

Noreena Hertz

A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.

Calvin Coolidge

The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do it yourselves.

Jeffrey Sachs

Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.

Muriel Spark

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.

Paulo Coelho

We do not want Ukraine to default. On the contrary, we need an economically viable partner. However, debts should be paid, and this includes state and commercial debts

Dmitry Medvedev

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.