Creditors

Every grant of credit is a speculative entrepreneurial venture, the success or failure of which is uncertain.

Human Action, p. 536; p. 539

Over all species of deferred payments hangs, like the sword of Damocles, the danger of government interference. Public opinion has always been biased against creditors.

Human Action, p. 537; p. 540

Lenders of money have been held in odium, at all times and among all peoples.

The Theory of Money and Credit, p. 264