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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dan

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.

Thomas Jefferson

Politics Government Banks Debt Deficit Spending Loans Political Science

The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin,

The acquisition by dishonest means and cunning,' said Levin, feeling that he was incapable of clearly defining the borderline between honesty and dishonesty. 'Like the profits made by banks,' he went on. 'This is evil, I mean, the acquisition of enormous fortunes without work, as it used to be with the spirit monopolists. Only the form has changed. Hardly were the monopolies abolished before railways and banks appeared: just another way of making money without work.

Work Anna Karenina Banks Earnings Labor Leo Tolstoy Monopolies Profits Railways