Quotes on Usury

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

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.

Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is growing in the United States. He deplores the perverse effects of minimum wage laws, and the legal minimum is regularly raised each 3 or 5 years. He brands usury laws as a medieval superstition, but no state hurries to repeal its law.