It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. — John Maynard Keynes 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
Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
The increase in the assets of the Federal Reserve Banks from 143 Million dollars in 1913 to 45 Billion dollars in 1949… — Eustace Mullins 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
The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The one thing people don't appreciate, I think, is that central banking is not a new development. It's been around for a… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much… — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with… — Josiah Stamp Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve is one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the… — Louis Thomas McFadden 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
War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system. We have seen that the Revolutionary War… — Murray Rothbard 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
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
As soon as Mr. Roosevelt took office, the Federal Reserve began to buy government securities at the rate of ten million dollars… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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… — Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Copy Share Image
“Every major war in American history, except the Mexican and Spanish-American, has either led to central banking or resulted from it. Central… — Mark David Ledbetter 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
“However, after several false starts and with the lessons of history fading, America, too, would finally create a permanent central bank, in… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Clear communication is always important in central banking, but it can be especially important when economic conditions call for further policy stimulus… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny... — John C. Danforth Copy Share Image
[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, you had one crisis after another. Each crisis brought… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did...they always will. They will have the same… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government… — James Rickards Copy Share Image
In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
Having examined the nature of fractional reserve and of central banking, and having seen how the questionable blessings of Central Banking were… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . .… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Central banks have gotten out of the central banking business and into the central planning business, meaning that they are devoted to… — James Grant Copy Share Image