The principle of rotation... in the body of [bank] directors... breaks in upon the esprit de corps so apt to prevail in permanent bodies; it gives a chance for the public eye penetrating into the sanctuary of those proceedings and practices, which the avarice of the directors may introduce for their personal emolument, and which the resentments of excluded directors, or the honesty of those duly admitted, might betray to the public; and it gives an opportunity at the end of the year, or at other periods, of correcting a choice, which on trial, proves to have been unfortunate.

I am an enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but coin.

Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.

Certainly no nation ever before abandoned to the avarice and jugglings of private individuals to regulate according to their own interests, the quantum of circ…

Most Americans have no real understanding of the operations of the international moneylenders... the accounts of the Federal Reserve have never been audited. I…

The purpose of this closed session in the Senate chamber is to finally give the truth to at least the members of the Senate-to finally call to task the chairma…

'Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.'