Discounts Quote by Thomas Jefferson

All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington.

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

Government should eschew suasion and directives to banks on interest rates that run counter to monetary policy actions.

— Urjit Patel

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because…

— Garet Garrett

The state should avoid all solicitude for the positive welfare of its citizens, and not proceed a step further than is necessary for their…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to…

— Andrew Jackson

Make the financial industry pay for its mistakes. That's the idea behind the best of the Obama administration's reform proposals: If banks issue securities…

— David Ignatius

It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.

— Pauline Hanson

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