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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

Anytime we wanted to do something, we found a way to do it through conventional banking means.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

We became enthralled with the view that wealth trickled down from the top and that if you poured money into rich people, sort of like an ingredient, prosperity and jobs would squirt out of them like donuts. And if you understand economies in the 19th-century way, that view is plausible, and I think a lot of people accepted it.

We exist to have our wealth moved up the economic chain out of our reach.

If women had better access to the financial system - even so much as a basic deposit account at a bank - it would be a major step in the direction of greater wealth and greater economic empowerment.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty among men.

To deprive mankind of their natural right and power of creating wealth for themselves, is as great a tyranny as it is to rob them of it after they have created it. And this is done by all laws against honest banking.

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.