“It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.”

“What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?”

“Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.”

“I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.”

“Well you stick the dynamite in the keyhole and you don't damage the safe, only sometimes you put a little too much in and blow the safe door up, but other times you're lucky and the safe just comes open. Thus the scion of a great banking dynasty learned how to rob a bank.”

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency first by inflation then by deflation the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered... I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.”