Banking Quote by John Maynard Keynes

“By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect…

— John Maynard Keynes

It should be clear that modern fractional reserve banking is a shell game, a Ponzi scheme, a fraud in which fake warehouse receipts are…

— Murray Rothbard

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

— Richard McKenna

In the old days it was people robbed the banks.Times have changed these days the banks rob the people

— David Hutchinson

Citizens identify with something larger than themselves - if one's country is attacked, it can feel like a personal attack in a way that…

— Jonathan Zittrain

Banks don't commit crimes. Bankers do. And they won't ever stop if they don't have to pay for their crimes.

— Jim Hightower

Commercial banks - that is, fractional reserve banks - create money out of thin air. Essentially, they do it in the same way as…

— Murray Rothbard

There was a time when criminals were robbing the banks. Now they're running them

— Anonymous

To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob…

— Lysander Spooner

Individual bankers are rightly being investigated by the police. I and all colleagues in the chamber hope that if criminality is proven, they will…

— Andrea Leadsom

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

Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank of deposit.…

— John Adams