"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.  Already they have raised up a money aristocracy that has set the government at defiance.  The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the government to whom it properly belongs."

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."                                                                                                                                                                                  --Thomas Jefferson

"Corporations have been enthroned.  An era of corruption in high places will follow… until wealth is aggregated in a few hands… and the Republic is destroyed."                                                                                                                                                                                                    --Abraham Lincoln

"The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers.  By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest.  Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity."                                                                                                                                     --Abraham Lincoln                                                   

 "Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce....And when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate."                                                                                                                                                                                --James Garfield, 1881

Congress needs to take back the Constitutional power to issue the nation's money.  "Fractional reserve" banking needs to be eliminated, limiting banks to lending only pre-existing funds. If the power to create money were returned to the government, the federal debt could be paid off, taxes could be slashed, and needed government programs could be expanded.  Contrary to popular belief, paying off the federal debt with new U.S. Notes would not be dangerously inflationary, because government securities are already included in the widest measure of the money supply.  The dollars would just replace the bonds, leaving the total unchanged.  If the U.S. federal debt had been paid off in fiscal year 2006, the savings to the government from no longer having to pay interest would have been $406 billion, enough to eliminate the $390 billion budget deficit that year with money to spare.  The budget could have been met with taxes, without creating money out of nothing either on a government print press or as accounting entry bank loans.  However, some money created on a government printing press could actually be good for the economy.  It would be good if it were used for the productive purpose of creating new goods and services, rather than for the non-productive purpose of paying interest on loans.  When supply (goods and services) goes up along with demand (money), they remain in balance and prices remain stable.  New money could be added without creating price inflation up to the point of full employment.  In this way Congress could fund much-needed programs, such as the development of alternative energy sources and the expansion of health coverage, while actually reducing taxes.                                                                                                          --Ellen Brown,  resource: 'DOLLAR DECEPTION: HOW BANKS SECRETLY CREATE MONEY'.