Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

  • -- James A. Garfield 詹姆斯·加菲尔德

在任何国家,谁控制了货币的数量,谁就是所有工商业的绝对主人。

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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

不是通过增加国家的资本,而是通过使这些资本中比其他情况下更大的一部分具有活性和生产性,使最明智的银行业务能够增加国家的工业。

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

同行的人很少聚在一起,即使是为了娱乐和消遣,但谈话的结局却是一场针对公众的阴谋,或者是某种提高物价的阴谋。

The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.

银行的根本问题一直是:它们从事的是银行业,而银行业,无论是普通的还是极其复杂的,本质上都是有风险的。

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

非常值得注意的是他在粗俗和粗俗之间的区别,粗俗,揭示了一些东西;粗俗,隐藏一些东西。

Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

完全自由对商业的健康和活力的必要,正如对公民的健康和活力的必要一样。

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

文明国家的主要商业活动是金钱,而不是道德。