If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency first by inflation then by deflation the banks and corporation… - Thomas Jefferson

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To
say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to
say they are nothings, or that there is no god, no angels,
no soul. I cannot reason otherwise .. . without plunging
into the fathomless abyss of dreams and phantasms. I am
satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which
are, without tormenting or troubling myself about
those which may indeed be, but of which I have no
evidence.

Nearly all of it is now called in by the banks, who have the regulation of the safety-valves of our fortunes, and who condense and explode them at their will.

I have always said, and always will say, that the studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.