Financial Power Quotes

The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.

I care not who forms the government of a country, so long as I control the purse strings.

Banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs

Money is power.

Endless money forms the sinews of war. Nervi belli pecunia infinita.

Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!

… war is a matter not so much of arms as of money

I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a 400 basball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of the country.

The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups.

The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson — and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of Woodrow Wilson. The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States — only on a far bigger and broader basis.

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance

I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create money. And they who control the credit of the nation direct the policy of Governments and hold in the hollow of their hand the destiny of the people

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

All the power of the government will be directed towards the Rockefeller Trust.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

We know the Constitution gives the purse strings to the House.

Whoever owns the means of credit controls the industrial life of the nation.

Money can't buy life.

All the banks in Christendom could not control money.

A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.

I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.

There is no way for people to vote against Goldman Sachs.

Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy.