The problem with capitalism is... Eventually you will have…

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were…

— Edith Wharton

As a joke, I would love to stand in line at ATM machines, and when people put in their PIN, I yell Got it!…

— Hussein Nishah

A banker is a person who gives you an umbrella when it's sun and who takes it away when it starts raining.

— FJLobato

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly…

— Salmon P. Chase

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.

— Josiah Stamp

Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress

— Nicholas Biddle

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again

— Jean Baudrillard

It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal…

— Lewis H. Lapham

The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying…

— Abraham Lincoln

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

— Thomas Jefferson

I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money...And they who control the…

— Reginald McKenna

Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic…

— Carroll Quigley

Banker: One who lends you an umbrella on a fine day and demands it back when it rains.

— Anonymous

The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and…

— Otto von Bismarck

And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special…

— William Jennings Bryan