“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding (i.e. credit), is but swindling futurity on a large scale”

Thomas Jefferson, US President 1801-1809 and author of the Declaration of Independence.

 

“The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temples of our civilisation. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit” 

President FD Roosevelt, Inaugural Speech 1933