It is worth one day [the people] to lose interest in public life, as we all, Congress and Assembly, judges and governors, turn into wolves. It seems to be a general law of nature, despite some exceptions. - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd President of the United States

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation the banks and corporations that will grow around them will deprive the people of all property until the children wake up homeless on the continent conquered by their fathers. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd President of the United States

[Corruption in the highest levels of power will lead to the fact that] “all wealth is concentrated in several hands and the republic is destroyed.” – Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), sixteenth President of the United States (1861-65)

When robbery becomes a way of life for a group of people living together in a society, over time they create for themselves a legal system that empowers robbery and a moral code that glorifies it. – Frederick Bastia (1801-1850), French economist