Central Bank Independence

Famous quotes containing the words central, bank and/or independence:

    “The Federal Constitution has stood the test of more than a hundred years in supplying the powers that have been needed to make the Central Government as strong as it ought to be, and with this movement toward uniform legislation and agreements between the States I do not see why the Constitution may not serve our people always.”
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    “What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?”
    —Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)

    “A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.”
    —Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)