Bankers Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through…

— Abraham Lincoln

“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

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

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency first by inflation then by deflation the banks and…

— Thomas Jefferson

Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities are inescapable…

— E.C. Riegel

We need the government to force the banks to write down all their bad assets now and then recapitalize themselves, preferably with private capital.…

— Steve Eisman

Finally, in our progress toward a resumption of work we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order: there…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

“The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Government, but it is the Government's greatest creative opportunity. By…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will…

— Margaret Thatcher

A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must…

— Thomas Jefferson