Banking Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device…

— Elgin Groseclose

The dreams of "leaving it up to the market" or of returning to a politically neutral gold standard cannot succeed because the nature of…

— Robert Gilpin

At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of…

— Grover Cleveland

When depreciated, mutilated, or debased coinage (or currency) is in concurrent circulation with money of high value in terms of precious metals, the good…

— Thomas Gresham

Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place.

— Dalton Camp

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

— J. Edgar Hoover

A lot of financial technology is foolhardy. Saying, 'We're going to kill banks. We're going to disrupt everything,' ignores some realities.

— Chris Larsen

Money is becoming increasingly plastic and digital. If there is a major disaster, let's say an asteroid strike, we'll go back to trading meats…

— Kabir Sehgal

“In the days when money was backed by its face value in silver or gold, there were limits to how much wealth could flow…

— Alan Weisman

“Such a crises occurs only where the ever-lengthening chain of payments, and an artificial system of settling them, has been fully developed. Whenever there…

— Karl Marx

Rather than working to the exclusion of everything else in order to flood our bank accounts in the hope that we can eventually buy…

— Randy Komisar