Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce… 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 A. Garfield
20th President of the United States, Mar-Sept.1881
Assassinated in 1881

There today exists uncontrolled in the hands of a set of men a power to make dollars from nothing.

~ Thomas W. Lawson, Author 'Frenzied Finance', 1905

I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and effort would be wasted. If it were to be exposed that our particular group had got together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress.

~ Frank A. Vanderlip
President of New York City Bank
(Formerly Citibank)
~ 1913'te Federal Reserve Act olarak geçen tasarıyı hazırlamak için 1910'da Jekyll Adası'nda gerçekleşen gizli toplantı hakkında 1935'te yazmıştır.

This (Federal Reserve) Act, is the most powerful single piece of legislation ever enacted in the history of the world. When President Woodrow Wilson signed it, the invisible hand of the Federal Reserve System was born.
The most heinous crime of all time, committed by the banking and monetary systems, is being perpetrated on the American people.

~ Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.
Member of the U.S. Congress, 1907-1917