-Abraham LincolnThe Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers.
By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.
Otto von Bismark (1815-1898), German Chancellor, after the Lincoln assassinationThere was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches.
I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America
and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.