Cities Quote by William E. Gladstone

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

— Margaret Ayer Barnes

the State only aims at instilling those qualities in its public by which its demands are obeyed, and its exchequer is filled. Its highest…

— Ouida

By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom…

— Karl Marx

“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 State requires a taxpaying machine in which there is no hitch, an exchequer in which there is never a deficit, and a public,…

— Emma Goldman

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from…

— Abraham Lincoln

When I was the finance minister, I got on well with the RBI Governor.

— Manmohan Singh

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of…

— Martin Van Buren

“In the Victorian era a curious belief was prevalent that sovereign states ought to have governments that were reasonably efficient and solvent.”

— Byron Farwell

The States is run by the Federal Reserve, an institution that answers only to itself and to a few large banks. It's modelled on…

— Max Keiser

Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.

— E.C. Riegel

In the United States we have, in effect, two governments ... We have the duly constituted Government ... Then we have an independent, uncontrolled…

— Wright Patman