Freedom Lawyers of America

"Paper money has the effect to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open
the door to every species of fraud and injustice." -- Geo. Washington

"If the average American people ever allow private banks to control the
issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the
banks and the corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the
people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the
continent that their fathers conquered." -- Thos. Jefferson

I believe the banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than
standing armies. Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has
set the government at defiance. The power should be taken from the banks
and restored to the government to whom it properly belongs." -- Thos.
Jefferson

"If Congress has the right to issue paper money, it was given them to be
used by themselves, and not to be delegated to individuals or
corporations." -- Andrew Jackson

"The government should create, issue and circulate all the money and
currency needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the
buying power of the consumers." -- Abraham Lincoln

"If the Nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. .
. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution, pays
nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say
that our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are
promises to pay but the one fatten the usurer and the other helps the
people." -- Thos. Edison

Where does the Federal Reserve get the money with which to create bank
reserves? Answer: It doesn't get the money, it creates it. When the
Federal reserve writes a check for a government bond it does exactly what
any bank does, it creates money. . . It creates money purely and simply by
writing a check. And if the recipient of the check wants cash, then the
Federal reserve can oblige him by printing the cash - Federal Reserve Notes
-- which the check receiver's commercial banks can hold over to him. The
Federal Reserve, in short, is a total money-making machines." Congressman
Wright Patman