Debt is the slavery of the free.

-- Publilius Syrus

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

-- Mark Twain

We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery. -- Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.

-- Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (1775)