A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.

Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.