"A great industrial Nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the Nation and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world - no longer a Government of free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." (Just before he died, Wilson is reported to have stated to friends that he had been "deceived" and that "I have betrayed my Country." He was referring to the Federal Reserve Act passed during his Presidency.)
SIR JOSIAH STAMP
(President of the Bank of England in the 1920's, the second richest man in Britain)
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and was born in sin. The Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them with the power to create deposits, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take it away from them, and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of Bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create deposits."
MARTIN LUTHER
(Martin Luther was strong in condemning interest on money. He said in part:)
"Meanwhile, we hand the small thieves... Little thieves are put in the stocks, great thieves go flaunting in gold and silk... Therefore is there, on this earth, no greater enemy of man (after the devil) than a gripemoney, and usurer, for he wants to God over all men. Turks, soldiers, and tyrants are also bad men, yet must they let the people live, and confess that they are bad, and enemies, and do, nay, must, now and then show pity to some. But the usurer and money-glutton, such a one would have the whole world perish of hunger and thirst, misery and want, so far as in him lies, so that he may have all to himself, and everyone may receive from him as from a God, and be his serf forever." - Encylopedia Britannica, page 105
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