Thanks for the bonus quote! Rings true.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws."
~~Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"I am one of those who do not believe the national debt is a national blessing... it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country."
~~Andrew Jackson, letter, April 26, 1824
I have ever been the enemy of banks, not of those discounting for cash, but of those foisting their own paper into circulation, and thus banishing our cash. My zeal against those institutions was so warm and open at the establishment of the Bank of the United States, that I was derided as a maniac by the tribe of bank-mongers, who were seeking to filch from the public their swindling and barren gains.
~~Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1814
I am an enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but coin.
Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Thomas Cooper, 1814