Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

About Mark Twain

Portrait of Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include...

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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. 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 [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

—Paula Poundstone

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

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I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

—Thomas Jefferson

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