“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
“Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.”
John Adams
“The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.”
Aristotle
“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
With apologies to William Shakespeare “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the bankers.”
“Bankers – pillars of society that are going to hell if there is a GOD and HE has been accurately quoted.”
– John Ralston Saul
“New Golden Rule of Fractional Reserve Banking: He who creates the “fool’s gold” controls the fools.”
― Orrin Woodward
“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
“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
“Those that think banks and governments are making them poor haven’t seen the whole picture. Poverty is the act of trusting their system.”
― Robin Sacredfire