In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament.

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!