Banking Quotes

• You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

  Andrew Jackson

  Nwo, Presidential, Vipers

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• Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

  Mayer Amschel Rothschild

  Money, Writing, Issues

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• When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Government, Leader, Bankers

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• The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Simple, Mind, Bankers

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.22, Princeton University Press

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• History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

  James Madison

  Lying, Mean, Government

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• It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

  Ron Paul

  War, Coincidence, Century

  Chris Rossini, Ron Paul (2014). “Set Money Free: What Every American Needs To Know About The Federal Reserve”, p.116, Lulu.com

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• I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Army, Names

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.277

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• Banking is necessary - banks are not.

  Bill Gates

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• Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today.

  Mervyn King

  Today, Way, Worst

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• The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.

  Josiah Stamp

  Hands, Historical, Bankers

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• Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

  Walter Bagehot

  Adventure, Caution, Commerce

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• Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess

  Irving Fisher

  Historical, Promise, Bankers

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• I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Believe, Afterlife

  "This much I know". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

  Frederick Soddy

  Today, Profit, Whole

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• Anything that benefits the public and not just big banking, that's what I'm with.

  Big Boi

  Benefits, Bigs

  "Grammy Award-Winning Rapper Big Boi: I Didn't Vote For Obama - I'm A Libertarian". Interview with Alyona Minkovski, www.newsbusters.org. January 12, 2013.

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• They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Money, People, Bankers

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". Interview with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• I saw a bank that said '24 Hour Banking,' but I don't have that much time.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Time, Humor

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• What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?

  Bertolt Brecht

  Breaking Silence, Literature, Bankers

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Brecht Collected Plays: 2: Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins”, p.204, A&C Black

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• I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again

  Jean Baudrillard

  Safe Keeping, Bankers, Deposits

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.61, Verso

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• From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

  Bill Frist

  Character, Blood, Justice

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• The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

  Arianna Huffington

  Fall, Class, Giants

  Arianna Huffington (2010). “Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream”, p.5, Broadway Books

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• If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

  Mike Huckabee

  Stories, Footnotes, Retired

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• We are inheriting the worst financial system since the Depression. We're inheriting a situation - when people go back and study major banking crises a quarter century from now, the one that America developed in 2007 and 2008 is going to be one of those crises.

  Lawrence Summers

  Banking Crisis, America, People

  "Larry Summers on 'FOX News Sunday'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 8, 2009.

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• To combat depression by a forced credit expansion is to attempt to cure the evil by the very means which brought it about; because we are suffering from a misdirection of production, we want to create further misdirection -- a procedure which can only lead to a much more severe crisis as soon as the credit expansion comes to an end.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Evil, Deception

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• In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

  William Greider

  Prison Time, Doe, Deeds

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