"The real menace of our Republic is the Invisible Government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation . At the head of this octopus is a small group of powerful banking houses, generally referred to as the `International' bankers . This little coterie of powerful International bankers virtually runs our Government for their own selfish ends,"

>t. John F. Hylan, on March 26, 1922

"The bold effort the present (central) bank had made to control the government . . . are but premonitions of the fate that await the American people should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution or the establishment of another like it."

"Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves."

>t. Andrew Jackson