Paper is Poverty...

"Paper is poverty,...it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself."  I now deny (the Frederal Government's) power of making paper money or anything else a legal tender. The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin {gold and silver coins}. If the American people allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their children will make up the homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."  Thomas Jefferson