The Coming Battle

Chapter I - Origin of the Money Power in America

Chapter I
Origin of the Money 
Power in America

"The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated.  I contemplate it is a blot left in all our constitutions which, if not covered; will end their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers and corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.  Funding I consider as limited rightfully to a redemption of the debt within the lives of the majority of the generation contracting it: every generation coming equally by the laws of the Creator of the world to the free possession of the earth He made for their subsistence unencumbered by their predecessors. And I sincerely believe with you that banking institutions are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

Thomas Jefferson - In a letter to John Tyler, May 28th, 1816.

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"The Government itself ceases to be independent, it ceases to be safe when the national currency is at the will of a company.  The Government can undertake no great enterprise, neither war nor peace, without the consent and co-operation of that company..."

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