Thomas Jefferson: Banks Control of Currency Issue

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and the corporations will grow up around them, 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

Aristotle: Exorbitant Interest of Petty Usury

"The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice." -- Aristotle

How Much Currency For Your Soul?

"Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life." -- Eric Hoffer

Charles Lindbergh, Sr on Federal Reserve Act of 1913

"This Act (the Federal Reserve Act, Dec. 23rd 1913) establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Woodrow Wilson) signs the Bill, the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalised... The worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency Bill." -- Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. (1859 ~ 1924) Congressman (father of the famous aviator)

Rod Steiger on Spending Time as Currency

"Time is the most important currency, but once you spend it, it's gone." -- Rod Steiger