"The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility
existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an
Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin.
If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of
their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks
and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the
People of all their Property until their Children will wake up
homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered."

-- Thomas Jefferson