Bankers Quote by Kyle MacDonald

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

— Edith Wharton

The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and…

— Otto von Bismarck

Banker: One who lends you an umbrella on a fine day and demands it back when it rains.

— Anonymous

Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic…

— Carroll Quigley

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

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal…

— Lewis H. Lapham

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

— Jean Baudrillard

Nothing but widespread suffering will produce any effect on Congress

— Nicholas Biddle

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.

— Josiah Stamp

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly…

— Salmon P. Chase