21 Quotes That Expose Central Banking as America’s Greatest Scam

Since its inception, the Federal Reserve has worked to enslave Americans under a mountain of debt. It’s not a government agency—it’s a private cartel operating for the profit of international banking elites. The quotes below, spoken by some of history’s most influential figures, strip away the propaganda and reveal the naked truth about central banking.

21 Quotes That Will Make You Question Everything

1. John Adams, 2nd President of the United States:
   “All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”
2. James Madison, 4th President of the United States:
   “History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance.”
3. Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States:
   “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power [of money] should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.”
4. Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States:
   “The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy.”
5. James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States:
   “Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.”
6. Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States:
   “A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated 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.”
7. Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild, Banking Magnate:
   “Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes its laws.”
8. Horace Greeley, American Newspaper Editor:
   “While boasting of our noble deeds, we’re careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.”
9. Sir Josiah Stamp, Former President of the Bank of England:
   “Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.”
10. Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863:
    “The few who understand the system will either be so interested from its profits or so dependent on its favors that there will be no opposition from that class.”
11. Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., Congressman, 1913:
    “This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President [Wilson] signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized.”
12. Charles A. Lindbergh Sr., Congressman, 1923:
    “The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group.”
13. Congressman Louis T. McFadden, 1932:
    “The Federal Reserve banks are one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. It has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government.”
14. Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States:
    “The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson.”
15. Eustace Mullins, Historian and Author:
    “As soon as Mr. Roosevelt took office, the Federal Reserve began to buy government securities... and created one hundred million dollars in new [checkbook] currency.”
16. Congressman Wright Patman, 1941:
    “The Federal Reserve bank buys government bonds without one penny…”
17. Senator Barry Goldwater:
    “The accounts of the Federal Reserve System have never been audited. It operates outside the control of Congress and manipulates the credit of the United States.”
18. Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company:
    “It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”
19. Lewis vs. United States, 9th Circuit Court, 1982:
    “The regional Federal Reserve banks are not government agencies… but are independent, privately owned and locally controlled corporations.”
20. Boston Federal Reserve Bank:
    “When you or I write a check there must be sufficient funds in our account to cover the check, but when the Federal Reserve writes a check there is no bank deposit on which that check is drawn.”
21. Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States:
    “You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out!”

A Rigged System

These voices paint a picture of a system designed to enslave. The Federal Reserve doesn’t serve the people; it serves itself. Every dollar it prints is another shackle on the wrists of Americans.

It’s time to stop being pawns in this rigged game. The Fed must be dismantled, and the power of money creation returned to the people.

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