Central Banking Quotes - Page 2

• Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Men, Law

  John Maynard Keynes (2016). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The Economist”, p.124, 北戴河出版

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• While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

  Horace Greeley

  Historical, Liberty, Bankers

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• And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Only those whose accumulations are stained with dishonesty and whose immoral methods have given them a distorted view of business, society and government. Accumulating by conscious frauds more money than they can use upon themselves, wisely distribute or safely leave to their children, these denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw a light upon their crimes.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Light, Enemy, Bankers

  Speech at Madison Square Garden, New York, August 30, 1906.

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• The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Selfish, Adversity

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• If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.

  Andrew Jackson

  Government, Issues, Historical

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• The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Issues, Government, Adoption

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• The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is Private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money.

  Charles August Lindbergh

  Freedom, People, Historical

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• Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.

  Josiah Stamp

  Bankers, Banking, Credit

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• The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Taken, Democracies Have, Government

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• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Money, Hands

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• We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.

  Louis Thomas McFadden

  Country, Government, Practice

  "100 Years Is Enough: Time to Make the Fed a Public Utility" by Ellen Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 23, 2013.

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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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• Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

  James A. Garfield

  Country, Money, Democracy

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  I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Money, Believe, Army

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• I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Believe, Taken

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• [We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Nwo, Free Opinion

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.136, tredition

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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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• 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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• In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Style, Banking, Association

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• The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Real, World Government

  "F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945" edited by Elliott Roosevelt, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (p. 373), 1950.

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• There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

  Will Rogers

  Wisdom, Fire, Politics

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• I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Army, Two, Southern

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

  Ron Paul

  War, Banking, Coincidence

  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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• In 1977, when I started my first job at the Federal Reserve Board as a staff economist in the Division of International Finance, it was an article of faith in central banking that secrecy about monetary policy decisions was the best policy: Central banks, as a rule, did not discuss these decisions, let alone their future policy intentions.

  Janet Yellen

  Jobs, Decision, Boards

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• When you own gold you're fighting every central bank in the world. That's because gold is a currency that competes with government currencies and has a powerful influence on interest rates and the price of government bonds. And that's why central banks long have tried to suppress the price of gold. Gold is the ticket out of the central banking system, the escape from coercive central bank and government power.

  James Rickards

  Powerful, Fighting, Government

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