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“Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.” quote by John Adams — Download Open image

“Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.”

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

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

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

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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.

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

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