Character Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Everything predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. We are to be ruined now by the deluge…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is one of the serious evils of our present system of banking , that it enables one class of society - and that…

— Andrew Jackson

There is already something like a Jewish monopoly in high finance... here is the same element of Jewish monopoly in the silver trade, and…

— Hilaire Belloc

The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of…

— Woodrow Wilson

Instead of abandoning competition and giving banks protected monopolies once again, the public would be better served by making it easier to close banks…

— Raghuram Rajan

No business in the economy has the easy money that banks get to play with.... The existence of banks with single digit amounts of…

— Anat R. Admati

Banks were already seen as greedy and arrogant. They have now reached the depths of humiliation in the wake of the LIBOR manipulation, PPI…

— Andrea Leadsom

Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

— Nancy Pearcey

We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital…

— Thomas Jefferson

“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

Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it.

— Rupert Murdoch

It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not…

— Paul Volcker