Banking Quote by John Maynard Keynes

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million…

— John Maynard Keynes

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.

— Ron Wyden

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members…

— Alan Greenspan

When will the left learn that if you confiscate wealth it doesn't create more of it.

— Josh Bernstein

You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less…

— Thomas Sowell

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can…

— Angus Deaton

Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you --…

— John Wayne

The Chinese government does not engage in theft of commercial secrets in any form, nor does it encourage or support Chinese companies to engage…

— Xi Jinping

“Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of redundancy. But that info is obsolete, like my insults…

— Will Advise

The difference between theft and destruction is often a few keystrokes.

— Dmitri Alperovitch

“It was stolen. As most beautiful things eventually are.”

— Doug Dorst

“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre…

— John Ruskin