It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead

I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. The issuing powers should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be.

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and the corporations will grow up around them, will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” — from the debate on the recharter of the Bank Bill (1809)