The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better.

[The] Bank of the United States... is one of the most deadly hostility existing, against the principles and form of our Constitution... An institution like thi…

In order to be able to meet a general combination of the banks against us in a critical emergency, could we not make a beginning towards an independent use of …

The idea of creating a national bank I do not concur in, because it seems now decided that Congress has not that power (although I sincerely wish they had it e…

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.

Certainly no nation ever before abandoned to the avarice and jugglings of private individuals to regulate according to their own interests, the quantum of circ…

There is a persistent myth that a wife has control over her husband's money because she gets to spend it. Actually, she does not have much more financial autho…