| As President John Adams said, "All the perplexities,
confusion and distress (Ed. note - crime, poverty,
substance abuse, family disintegration, government
immorality and dishonesty, etc.) in America arise, not
from defects in the Constitution or confederation, not
from want of honor or virtue, so much as from
downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and
circulation." This is because nearly every part of our
lives revolves around money in some way. If we clear
up the money problem, all sorts of seemingly unrelated
problems will simply vanish! |
"If the American people ever allow private banks
to control the issue of their currency, first by
inflation and then by deflation, the banks and
corporations that will grow up around them will
deprive the people of all their property until their
children will wake up homeless on the continent their
fathers conquered." - President Thomas Jefferson |
"I believe that banking institutions are more
dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the
Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks
and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs." - President Thomas Jefferson. |
"The youth who can solve the money question will
do more for the world than all the professional
soldiers of history." - Henry Ford Sr.
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| "Whoever controls the volume of money in any
country is absolute master of all industry and
commerce." - President James A. Garfield |
"I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution.
I would be willing to depend on that alone for the reduction of the administration of our
government to the genuine principles of its constitution; I mean an additional article, taking
from the federal government the power to borrow money." - Thomas Jefferson |
| "If (As the supreme court had recently inferred)
Congress has the right under the Constitution to issue
paper money, it was given to them to be used by
themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or
corporations." - President Andrew Jackson |
"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." - Major L.B.Angus |
| From the testimony of Marriner Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, before the House Banking and Currency Committee, Sept. 30, 1941:
Congressman Patman: "Mr. Eccles, how did you get the money to buy those two billions of government securities?"
Eccles: "We created it."
Patman: "Out of what?"
Eccles: "Out of the right to issue credit money." |
"If two parties, instead of being a bank and an
individual, were an individual and an individual, they
could not inflate the circulating medium by a loan
transaction, for the simple reason that the lender
could not lend what he didn't have, as banks can
do.....Only commercial banks and trust companies can
lend money that they manufacture by lending it."
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Professor Irving Fisher, Yale University, in his book
"100% Money" |
| "I had never thought the Federal Reserve Bank
System would prove such a failure. The country is
in a state of irretrievable bankruptcy."
- Senator Carter Glass, June 7, 1938 |
"The Federal Reserve (privately owned banks) are
one of the most corrupt institutions the world has
ever seen." - Senator Louis T. McFadden (for 22 years Chairman of the U.S. Banking and currency Commission) |
| " The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government.
Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior
to the money power."
- Abraham Lincon |
"The entire banking movement, at all crucial
stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who
for years were linked, ideologically and personally,
with one another." - Gabriel Kolko |
| "Every effort has been made by the Fed to
conceal its power but the truth is, the Fed has
usurped the government. It controls everything here
and it controls all our foreign relations. It makes
and breaks governments at will. "
- Congressman Louis T.
McFadden, 1933, Chairman, Banking and Currency Committee |
"The bold effort the present bank had made to
control government (Second National Bank of the U.S.),
the distress it has wantonly produced...are but
premonitions of the fate that awaits the American
people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of
this institution or the establishment of another like
it."President Andrew Jackson |
| "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws."
- Mayer Anselm Rothschild of the Rothschild banking family. |
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| "Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.....Bankers own the Earth.
Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with the flick of a pen,
they will create enough money to buy it back again.....Take this great power away from them and
all great fortunes like mine will disappear (he was said to be the second richest man in Britain)
and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in.....But,
if you want to continue to be the slave of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then
let the bankers continue to create money and control credit."
- Sir Josiah Stamp, President of the Bank of England |
"If all the bank loans were paid up, no one
would have a bank deposit, and there would not be a
dollar of currency or coin in circulation. This
is a staggering thought. We are completely
dependent on the commercial banks for our money.
Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in
circulation, cash or credit. If the banks create
ample synthetic money, we are prosperous; if not,
we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent
monetary sys;tem. When one gets a complete grasp
upon the picture, the tragic absurdity of our
hopeless position is almost incredible - but there
it is. It (the banking problem) is the most
important subject intelligent persons can
investigate and reflect upon. It is so important
that our present civilization may collapse
unless it is widely understood and the defects
remedied very soon."
- Robert H. Hemphill, Credit
Manager of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
