Specie Quotes

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
--Henry Ford

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

The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependant on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.
--Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863

Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes its laws.
--Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild

Paper is poverty,... it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.
--Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1788. ME 7:36

[A] certain fact about inflation is that, sooner or later, it must come to an end.  It is a policy that cannot last.
Ludwig Von Mises

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.  And when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
--James Garfield

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
--Everett Dirksen

I am a most unhappy man.  I have unwittingly ruined my country.  A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit.  Our system of credit is concentrated.  The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men.  We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world.  No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority; but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.
--Woodrow Wilson