"The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and
credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the
buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the
taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest." --- Abraham Lincoln



"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by
inflation, then by deflation, 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."
--- Thomas Jefferson

"You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the
Eternal God, I will rout you out... If people only understood the rank
injustice of the money and banking system, there would be a revolution by
morning." --- Andrew Jackson

"History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse,
intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control
over governments by controlling money and its issuance." --- James Madison