I’m all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that’s what banks are for.
The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures. The next time we have a pestilence of them it will come to grief quickly enough, and if the good banks escape ruin with the bad ones it will be only because the taxpayer.
When the fund was exhausted, the solvent banks were punished by being forced to pay for the deficits of the insolvent ones.
The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.
Time is a river without banks.