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.
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
Albert Gallatin (1802)
“Who ever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. And when you realize that the entire system is easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.”
James A. Garfield,
assassinated president of the united states
Abolish the Federal Reserve.
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