"The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process
is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight of hand that was every invented.
Banking was conceived in inequity and born in sin . Bankers own the earth. Take
it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and with a flick of
a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again . Take this great
power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, for then
this would be a better and happier world to live in . But if you want to
continue to be the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then
let bankers continue to create money and control credit."
--- Sir Josiah Stamp, president of the Bank of England and the second richest
man in Britain in the 1920's, speaking at the University of Texas in 1927