If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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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.
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.
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
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