Aristocracy Quote by Karl Marx

The public are entitled to have an absolute guarantee of the financial probity and integrity of their elected representatives, their officials and above all…

— Bertie Ahern

The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state, for the protection of…

— Alexander Hamilton

“The public found that an ill-regulated and extravagant credit system, whilst it had made the few rich, had consigned to loss, ruin and poverty,…

— Adam Wasserman

There was a time in the United States when most of our financial institutions were local. Which essentially meant that local communities were able…

— David Korten

“In a country supposedly dedicated to the ideals of market economics, arguably the most important social function of finance – lending for home purchase – had…

— Martin Wolf

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

So the misplaced assumption is that we have this whole new institutional element where these [financial] institutions are looking after their own financial interests…

— John C. Bogle

The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and,…

— Edmund Burke

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

— John Buchanan Robinson

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of…

— Martin Van Buren

The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able…

— Carroll Quigley

“believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set…

— Mark Goodwin