Banks And Money Quotes

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Powerful, Freedom

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.3

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• 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

  Money, Morning, Believe

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

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Fun, Believe, Population Problem

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

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• 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.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Money, Simple, Mind

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

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• 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

  Money, Freedom, Liberty

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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 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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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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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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• 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

  New York, Order, Nwo

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

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• 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

  Bankers, Cost, Banking

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

  Warren Buffett

  Funny, Success, Money

  "Rules That Warren Buffett Lives By". Yahoo Finance, February 23, 2010.

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

  Ralph George Hawtrey

  Mean, Creating, Historical

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

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

  Willie Sutton

  Money, Robbing, Financial Advisor

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

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• 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

  Money, Men, Civilization

  "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.

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

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Loss, Bankers

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• 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

  Money, Freedom, Real

  "With No Apologies". Book by Barry Goldwater, p. 282, 1979.

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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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• 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

  Issues, People, Political

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

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hilarious, Sarcastic

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

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• 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

  Country, Money, Powerful

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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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