Banks And Money Quotes:

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Wisdom, Freedom, Powerful, Belive, Limited Government

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

- Henry Ford

topic: Morning, Believe, Government, Model T, Money Lenders

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

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Money, Believe, Army, Money And Power, Our Founding Fathers

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

- Kenneth E. Boulding

source: "The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth" by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1966.

topic: Fun, Believe, Forever, Mad Men, Overpopulation

The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

source: "Money: Whence it came, where it went". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 15, 29, 1975.

topic: Money, Simple, Mind, Monetary System, Monetary

Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Money, Slavery, Facts, Masters And Slaves, Monetary System

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

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Government, Leader, Bankers, Controlling Government, Banks And Money

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

- Josiah Stamp

topic: Banking, Modern, Modern Slavery, Monetary System, Central Banks

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

- Robert Frost

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Witty, Inspirational Rain, Lending Money

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

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Taken, Democracies Have, Government, Money And Power, Reserves

The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call money in the New York money market....The One World Government leaders and their ever close bankers have now acquired full control of the money and credit machinery of the U.S. via the creation of the privately owned Federal Reserve Bank.

- Curtis Bean Dall

source: "Franklin Roosevelt, My Exploited Father-in-Law" by Curtis Dall, 1968.

topic: New York, Government, Leader, One World Government, World Order

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

- Josiah Stamp

topic: Pay, Bankers, Cost, Bankers And Banks, Banks And Money

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Funny, Success, Money, Makin Money, Market Risk

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

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

topic: Country, Practice, Government, Central Banking, Central Banks

Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing.

- Ralph George Hawtrey

source: "National Economy and the Banking System of the United States". Book by Robert Latham Owen, p. 102, 1939.

topic: Mean, Creating, Banking, Monetary System, Central Banks

I rob banks because that's where the money is.

- Willie Sutton

source: "Willie Sutton Said It First: ‘That's Where the Money Is’" by Leonard Buder, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 1979.

topic: Money, Financial Advisor, Banks And Money, Robbers

The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.

- Otto von Bismarck

source: "The C.S.L.T.: containing views on Abraham Lincoln as expressed by Bismarck in 1878, from the recollections of Conrad von Bauditz Siem". Book by Conrad von Bauditz Siem, 1915.

topic: Money, Men, Civilization, Monetary System, Craftiness

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Funny, Loss, Politics, Deposits, Mismanagement

Most Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States

- Barry Goldwater

topic: Money, Freedom, Real, Money Lenders, Reserves

The country is headed toward a single and splendid government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling...I hope we shall...crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Crush, Country, Believe, Large Scale, Incorporation

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

- Lord Acton

topic: Issues, People, Political, Usury, Bankers And Banks

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

- John Kenneth Galbraith

topic: Simple, Mind, Investing, Monetary System, Monetary

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

- Bob Hope

source: Quoted in Alan Harrington, Life in the Crystal Palace (1959).

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Witty, Need Money, Funny Sarcastic

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

- James A. Garfield

topic: Country, Money, Powerful, Master Ceremony, Reserves

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

- Mayer Amschel Rothschild

topic: Writing, Law, Issues, Rothschild, Control Issues

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - 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 duress of a small group of dominant men.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: Country, Men, Hands, Duress, Zeitgeist

The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences.

- Carroll Quigley

source: Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, G S G & Associates Pub

topic: Country, Fashion, Agreement, Power And Control, Central Banking

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

topic: Government, Issues, Adoption, Money And Power, Monetary System

I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money...And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of Governments and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people.

- Reginald McKenna

topic: Destiny, Government, Hands, Ordinary Citizens, Monetary System

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

- J. Paul Getty

source: "he Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing". Book by Pat Dorsey & ‎Joe Mansueto, p. 234, 2003.

topic: Funny Inspirational, Business, Motivation, Money Problem, Investment Banking

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

topic: Lying, Mean, Government, Reserves, Monetary System

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

topic: Promise, Bankers, Banking, Monetary System, Central Banks

These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into submission or drive out of public office officials who refuse to do the bidding of the powerful corrupt cliques which compose the invisible government.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Powerful, Government, Oil, Standard Oil, Paper Money

If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash, or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless situation is almost incredible - but there it is.

- Robert W. Hemphill

topic: Commercial Banks, Bankers, Dollars, Circulation, Deposits

Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.

- Carroll Quigley

topic: Country, Government, World, Foreign Exchange, Central Banking

The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.

- William Paterson

topic: Benefits, Credit, Interest, Monetary System, Central Banks

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

topic: People, Historical, Groups, Central Banking, Central Banks

[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

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

topic: Men, Nwo, Free Opinion, Duress, State Government