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 our own money, towards holding our own bank in all the deposits where it is received, and letting the treasurer give his draft or note for payment at any particular place, which, in a well-conducted government, ought to have as much credit as any private draft or bank note or bill, and would give us the same facilities which we derive from the banks?

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 wi…

Put down the banks, and if this country could not be carried through the longest war against her most powerful enemy without ever knowing the want of a dollar,…

[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…

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.

The stock of money, prices and output was decidedly more unstable after the establishment of the Reserve System than before. The most dramatic period of instab…

I hold it the duty of the Executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditures, and a sparing economy is itself a great national resource.