Thomas Jefferson: "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."
George Washington: "Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice."
James Madison: "History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance."
Benjamin Franklin: "When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic."
Thomas Jefferson: "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 them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered."
John Adams: "All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation."
Thomas Jefferson & James Madison: The issuing power of money should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."