I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my…

[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government…

— Woodrow Wilson

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

— Woodrow Wilson

Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws.

— Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money…

— Irving Fisher

The depression was the calculated 'shearing' of the public by the World Money powers, triggered by the planned sudden shortage of supply of call…

— Curtis Bean Dall

If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or…

— Robert W. Hemphill

The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.

— William Paterson

We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This…

— Louis Thomas McFadden

The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and…

— Otto von Bismarck

Each central banksought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic…

— Carroll Quigley

I am afraid the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can, and do, create money...And they who control the…

— Reginald McKenna

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying…

— Abraham Lincoln

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.

— Josiah Stamp