It is no coincidence that the century of total war…

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

Central banks have gotten out of the central banking business and into the central planning business, meaning that they are devoted to raising up-if…

— James Grant

Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, you had one crisis after another. Each crisis brought about some…

— George Soros

When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government currencies and…

— James Rickards

War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War occasioned a…

— Murray Rothbard

In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in. On…

— Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do.

— Jerome Powell

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

— Will Rogers

“Every major war in American history, except the Mexican and Spanish-American, has either led to central banking or resulted from it. Central banking and…

— Mark David Ledbetter

Clear communication is always important in central banking, but it can be especially important when economic conditions call for further policy stimulus but the…

— Ben Bernanke

“However, after several false starts and with the lessons of history fading, America, too, would finally create a permanent central bank, in 1914. For…

— Mark David Ledbetter

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

— Thomas Jefferson

The one thing people don't appreciate, I think, is that central banking is not a new development. It's been around for a very long…

— Ben Bernanke

In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able…

— Carroll Quigley