There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
As a joke, I would love to stand in line at ATM machines, and when people put in their PIN, I yell… — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
A banker is a person who gives you an umbrella when it's sun and who takes it away when it starts raining. — FJLobato Copy Share Image
My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up… — Salmon P. Chase Copy Share Image
The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress — Nicholas Biddle Copy Share Image
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money...And they who… — Reginald McKenna Copy Share Image
Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Banker: One who lends you an umbrella on a fine day and demands it back when it rains. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I don't understand banks. Why do they attach chains to their pens? ....If I'm trusting you with my money, you should trust… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve… — Louis Thomas McFadden Copy Share Image
This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of… — Charles August Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash or credit. — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing. — William Paterson Copy Share Image
Personally I think the highs of Bankers are not unlike the cravings for drugs and alcohol which is why the two might… — Kyle MacDonald Copy Share Image
The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image