"The constitution is just a goddamn piece of paper."
-George W Bush Nov. 2005
"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
"I believe banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies...If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency...the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property untill their children wake up homeless on their continent their fathers conquered."
--Thomas Jefferson