Every criminal in the public service is a plague spot spreading contagion on every hand. - Louis D. Brandeis

When once a banker has entered the Board – whatever may have been the occasion – his grip proves tenacious and his influence usually supreme; for he controls the supply of new money.

We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.

But sporadic evidence indicates how great are the possibilities of accumulation when one has the use of “other people’s money.