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. . No State shall .......... emit Bills of
Credit; (and) make anything but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts...
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/. . . . "Paper money has had the effect that it will ever have, to ruin
commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice." . - President George Washington . . .
.. . . ."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." - President Thomas Jefferson .
. "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." - President James Madison .
. . ."The bold effort the present (central)
bank had made to control the government ... are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be
deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it." - President Andrew Jackson . . .
. "Few Americans give much thought to the Federal Reserve System or monetary policy in general. But even as they strive to earn a living, and hopefully save for the future, Congress and the FED work insidiously against them. Day by day, every dollar you have is being devalued. The greatest threat facing America today is the disastrous fiscal policies of our own government, marked by shameless deficit spending and Federal Reserve currency devaluation. It is this one-two punch-- Congress spending more than it can tax or borrow, and the Fed printing money to make up the difference-- that threatens to impoverish us." - Congressman Dr. Ron Paul
. "Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you
have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst
you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter,
I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin
fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves and I intend to rout you." - President Andrew Jackson
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"We have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world
has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks, hereinafter called the FED. They are not
government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of
themselves and their foreign customers."
-Congressman Louis McFadden
"Some people think the
Federal Reserve Banks are US government institutions. They are not... they are private credit monopolies which prey upon the
people of the US for the benefit of themselves, their foreign and domestic swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders.
The sack of the United States by the Fed is the greatest crime in history. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal
its powers, 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 McFadden .
. "(If I were Bernanke) I would abolish the Federal Reserve and I would resign....If this happened, we don't have anybody printing money, we don't have inflation in the land, we don't have a collapsing U.S. dollar," ...No country in the world has ever succeeded by debasing its currency. "That's what this man is trying to do. He's trying to debase the currency as a way to revive America. It has never worked in the long term or the medium term." - Jim Rogers, legendary investor, CEO of Rogers Holdings . .
. . . . .. "This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic trust on earth.
When the President (Wilson} signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized....the worst
legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated" -Congressman Charles Lindbergh Sr. (father of the famous aviator) . . .
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"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.' -Napoleon Bonaparte . . .. .  .
"If the people of the nation
understood our banking and monetary system, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." -- Henry
Ford . . .
. . . . . . .. "Most
Americans have no real understanding of the operation of the international money lenders. The accounts of the Federal Reserve
System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States."
. .-- Senator Barry Goldwater (Rep. AR) . .
. . . ... . "Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing." -- Ralph
M. Hawtrey, Secretary of the British Treasury . . . . . .
. "If our nation
can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The difference between the bond and the bill is the bond lets money brokers
collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%, whereas the currency pays nobody but those who contribute directly
in some useful way. It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30 million in bonds and not $30 million in currency. Both
are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the usurers and the other helps the people. " - Thomas Edison
. . .
... "We are completely dependant on the commercial banks. 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 money system.... It is the most important subject intelligent persons can investigate and reflect upon. It is so important that our present civilization may collapse unless it becomes widely understood and the defects remedied very soon." -- Robert H. Hamphill, Credit Manager, Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank
“I do not feel it is any exaggeration to speak of our secret expedition
to Jekyll Island as the occasion of the actual conception of what eventually became the Federal Reserve System (1913). We
were told to leave our last names behind us. We were told further that we should avoid dining together on the night of our
departure. We were instructed to come one at a time and as unobtrusively as possible to the railroad terminal on the New Jersey
littoral of the Hudson where Senator Aldrich’s private car would be in readiness attached to the rear-end of a train
to the south. Once aboard the private car we began to observe the taboo that had been fixed on last names. We addressed one
another as Ben, Paul, Nelson and Abe. Davison and I adopted even deeper disguises abandoning our first names. On the theory
that we were always right, he became Wilbur and I became Orville after those two aviation pioneers the Wright brothers. The
servants and train crew may have known the identities of one or two of us, but they did not know all and it was the names
of all printed together that would’ve made our mysterious journey significant in Washington, in Wall Street, even in
London. Discovery we knew simply must not happen.....If it were to be exposed
publicly that our particular group had gotten together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever
of passage by Congress.” -Frank
Vanderlip, Bank President, Saturday Evening Post, 02/09/1935 .
. .. . . . "The few who understand the system, will either be so interested
from its profits or so dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition from that class." -Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863 . . .
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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 control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back." - Sir Josiah Stamp, Former President, Bank of England . .
. .. . . . "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value ---- zero." - Voltaire, French Philosopher . . . .
. "The most hated sort (of wealth getting) and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exhange but not to increase at interest. And this term interest (tokos), which means the birth of money from money is applied to the breeding of money, because the offspring resembles the parent." - Aristotle, Ancient Greek Philosopher .
. . .“We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors and a ruined people.” - Daniel Webster, American Statesman .
. ." "Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce." - President James A. Garfield . . . .
. . "Money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes." - William Jennings Bryan, American Statesman . . .
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