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.
Thomas Jefferson
Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is
restored to government and recognized as its most
conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talk of
sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and
futile... Once a nation parts with control of its credit, it
matters not who makes the nation's laws... Usury once in control
will wreck any nation.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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 a flick of the pen, they
will create enough money to buy it back again... Take this great
power away from them and all the great fortunes like mine will
disappear and they ought to disappear, for then this
would be a better and happier world to live in... But, if you
want to be the slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own
slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and
control credit.
Sir Josiah Stamp
(Governor of the Bank of England in the 1920s)
