"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the
issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the
banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the
banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children
will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." --
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), U.S. Founding Father, drafted the
Declaration of Independence, 3rd U.S. President. Source: in 1802
in a letter to then Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin.