Quotes on Bankers And Banks

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

When your bank account is so overdrawn that it is positively photographic, steps must be taken.

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