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| Banking Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. | Hope | Bob |
| 2 | I sincerely believe. . . that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. | Jefferson | Thomas |
| 3 | It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame. I don't know how they become so quickly inducted into the presiding mysteries, or who instructs them in the finely articulated inflections of contempt for the laity, but somehow they learn to think of themselves as suppliers of the monetarized DNA that is the breath of life. | Lapham | Lewis H |
| 4 | Bankers are just like anybody else except richer. | Nash | Ogden |
| 5 | A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. | Twain | Mark |
| 6 | It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. | Ford | Henry |
| 7 | I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies . . . If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations th | Jefferson | Thomas |
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