If the American people ever allow the 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 will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered
Exactly what Representative Patman of Texas expressed as is shown by: https://www.monticello.org/encyclopedia/private-banks-spurious-quotation at footnote -1: