They'll probably put Ron Paul on the trillion-dollar bill.

I don't think they consider him a worthy foe.

Alexander Hamilton is the one that you can't get around. He was a banker. He also was very much interested in bringing the European model of central banking to the US. The quote you use also shows he believed in national debt and thought it was a good thing.

Woodrow Wilson is also problematic for your theory. You admit that he, more than any other president, is responsible for creating the Fed. He also believed his biggest failure was not getting the US to sign on to the League of Nations an idea he basically created and championed at Versailles after WWI. While he indeed said he was tricked, the central bank was very much in line with his view of a good progressive government.

Wilson you can--kind of--argue, but Alexander Hamilton was a great fried of finance. He wrote prolifically on the subject and drafted all sorts of proposals and guidelines (creating the treasury), so I'm sorry to say this doesn't add up.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I like the post too as it's interesting speculation.

EDIT 2: Regarding Hamilton and import duties. You are correct that he was very interested in the imposition of duties. He helped create the Coast Guard for this very purpose (even designed light houses and the boats used to interdict ships). So, he was VERY much in favor of taxes on imported goods. The thing is, he liked them because there was no other way to fund the government, and Hamilton wanted a powerful central government and needed to get funds. He was in favor of trade.

Fed Reserve puts its heroes and its enemies on the money, not just enemies.

Wilson was the bankers biggest bitch. And his greatest regret was signing the federal reserve act.

If only Teddy had pulled off his Bull-Moose Miracle!

Your comments gives credence to my theory in that these men were all implicit in this banking scheme and that they knew full well what they were doing, which is the reason they gave their speeches.

Speak out against the evil that they have become so that the people don't believe they are a part of that evil, even though they damn well are.

Some of them could have been legitimately against the banking scheme like JFK and Lincoln but the others?

To put it in the words of recent presidents, "I did not engage in sexual relations with that woman" and "I am not a crook".

So, I wonder when the break in mind set came that made people in government realize levying taxes on goods wasn't enough to sustain the government?

Look very closely at the link between taxing labor and the indebting of future labor via the lending of credit to every day folks.

Trade != central banking, or even fiat currency for that matter.

That being said, the Kennedy quote is referring to the USSR. Even though, he was certainly against the Fed.

The theory was that Hamilton favored tariffs, which meant he was anti-globalization. In fact Hamilton's love for tariffs was simply due to a need to raise funds absent an income tax. He was both pro-trade and what today we would call globalist.

I don't recall how he felt about fiat currency, but I would suspect he favored it.

I came here to talk about AJ and there it was already posted.

What a dishonor to his life's work to appear on the $20 bill.

You can get your name written into the history book...

....that doesn't mean people won't spit on your grave.

there can be only 1....one true conspiracy, a criminal one....and that is it....central banking.....period

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name another and I will directly tie it to the head of the snake....all roads lead to central banking...this country and the entire world, since the formation of society has been about one thing....your faith....faith in a medium of exchange.....it has always been about...."to central bank or not"....and of course anyone with an iq over 80 can hopefully grasp the concept that a countries means of exchange must not be a privately held product....because of course if one owns the form of exchange that a society uses, then he who owns the exchange owns everything...it is the equivalent of owning the air we breath

Interesting read. Thanks

TIL: There are bills greater in value than the $500 bill.

I'm Australian, I was amazed it went past $100

Some corrections.

First, one should note that all the coins are from the U.S. Mint and that the Federal Reserve has nothing to do with them.

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Abraham Lincoln hated the idea of a central bank so much that he created his own money to replace it.

There's no evidence that Lincoln hated central banks. Congress created Greenbacks to finance the Civil War. There was no central bank currency in 1862 to replace. Lincoln later created the National Bank system.

That quote is a fake from 1887, denounced by both of Lincoln's secretaries, as well as historians.

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This part of the quote is a fake from the 1930s: "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 wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered."

The words inflation and deflation weren't even used that way during Jefferson's lifetime.

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The quotes from Roosevelt are real, except I think this last part is a commentary that was accidentally joined to the quote from the FDR letter: "History depicts Andrew Jackson as the last truly honorable and incorruptible American president".

$1.00 The Dollar Coin. Dwight Eisenhower. Eisenhower audited Ft. Knox. It is the last time this has been done.

Ft. Knox was audited from 1975 to 1987. No significant discrepancies were found.

20.00 The Twenty Dollar Bill. Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson once said, when asked what his greatest accomplishment as President was that "I killed the Bank." I've never seen evidence that Jackson said that, although he did once write "The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it."

Jackson detested the foreign bankers

Jackson warned that the Bank of the United States could be taken over by foreigners, which he thought was a danger. I don't know that he "detested the foreign bankers" in general though. He specifically employed the Rothschilds as agents of the U.S. in France.

once proclaimed to Congress, "You are a den of vipers and thieves and I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

That part was not to Congress, but to a delegation of citizens from Philadelphia.

If Congress has the right to issue paper money, it was given them to be used by themselves, and not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.."

This is a paraphrase of what Jackson said in his veto message: "But if they have other power to regulate the currency, it was conferred to be exercised by themselves, and not to be transferred to a corporation."

$50.00 The Fifty Dollar Bill. Ulysses Grant. Ullyses S. Grant had the power to bring the Central Bank back but refused. He was Abraham Lincolns friend, and was assaulted the same night Lincoln was assasinated. He was supposed to be at Ford Theatre. He was quoted as saying "My failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent." when discussing the failure of the System of National Banks. Lincolnian in philosophy, Grant hated the money changers.

This one is a new one on me, so I haven't researched it, except just briefly right now. The quote is from this State of the Union address, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with banking. I just searched a few Grant biographies for anything about banks, but I didn't see anything of significance. If there's some evidence for his feelings about banks, or that the quote had anything to do with banks, I'd like to see it.

$100.00 The One Hundred Dollar Bill. Benjamin Franklin. Franklin did not want a Central Bank. "In the Colonies, we issue our own paper money. It is called 'Colonial Scrip.' We issue it in proper proportion to make the goods and pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner, creating ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power and we have no interest to pay to no one." And he also wrote, "The viability of the colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of King George III and the international bankers was the prime reason for the revolutionary war."

This is from a hoax circulated by Congressman Binderup in the 1930s and early 1940s. Read the analysis by historians here.

$500.00 The Five Hundred Dollar Bill. William McKinley. McKinley went directly at the Rothschilds when he launched The Sherman Anti-Trust Act.

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed 7 years before McKinley became president. It didn't have much to do with the Rothschilds since they had limited investment in America.

$5000.00 The Five Thousand Dollar Bill. James Madison. Madison vehemetly opposed the Central Bank and those who quietly control them. "History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance."

This is an author's note from Olive Cushing Dwinell's 1946 book, The Story of Our Money. Due to an editor's error, the quote is followed by "From Writings of Madison, previously quoted. Vol. 2, Page 14." But there's nothing like this in Madison's writings and the language is clearly 20th century.

Madison was later forced into signing the charter for The Second Bank of the United States.

Madison was originally against the First Bank, but by 1811, he was a supporter of it, and his administration came out for the new Second Bank.

$10,000.00 The Ten Thousand Dollar Bill. Salmon Chase. Salmon Chase was U.S. Treasury Secretary under Abraham Lincoln. Along with Lincoln he helped to create "Greenbacks". The Chase Bank is named after him, although he had no affiliation with it's owners. His name is their trophy. Salmon Chase later said, "My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest financial mistake in my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country."

This quote was not known during Chase's lifetime and no source for it has ever been given. It is almost certainly a hoax.

$100,000.00 The One Hundred Thousand Dollar Bill. Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson was tricked into signing the current Central Bank, The Federal Reserve, into law in 1913. He was very upset at what he had done and said, "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."

The first sentences of the quote are a hoax: "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country."

Those don't appear until 30 years after his death. The rest of the quote comes from two different campaign speeches Wilson gave in 1912, when he was running on a campaign of monetary reform. Wilson was proud of the Federal Reserve system for the rest of his life.

Most informative OP and followup comment combination I've seen in a while. Keep this exchange up guys an it will be a good day for my internet history! I'd give you both reddit gold, but I believe it may corrupt you.

Thank you for the diligent fact checking. I had always viewed Hamilton, Lincoln and Wilson as allies of the bankers and enemies of the people, for the most part. OP's assertions about them had me scratching my head a bit.

Bravo. Bravo. Bravo.

Not that Im a supporter of the idea of a central bank, but if you're going to use a bunch of quotes from famous dead presidents, one would think they would do more research than simply copying and pasting something they saw on some conspiracy theory website.

The supply of coin money in circulation has nothing to do with the Federal Reserve? I am not much of a FED hater and think that the problems with it are more to do with the people who have been running it than anything else.

Also the games the Fed plays with the money supply are no different then the games other countries play with their money supply these days or the games they were playing with Breton Woods gold reserves.

I don't like that we use petro dollars more than anyone else does but I fail to see another workable solution.

That was a fucking excellent post.

I like how you think they were tricked. Yea, I just accident.tally an institution. How'd that happen?

I agree with the general premise of the thesis of this claim. I believe the portraits are like "trophies" on the Federal Reserve Notes. However, there are quite a few factual inaccuracies on the quotes used here. While these historical figures generally were politically in opposition to private centralized banking, these quotes are the same oft repeated false quotes that are easily debunked and thus damage the credibility of the Fed's detractors. Just as the pods on the plane were a phony strawman introduced to 9/11 theories and the LIBOR congressional testimony of James Holmes father is a false rumor introduced by Sorcha Faal, these inaccurate quotes serve to undermine the movement to shed light on the Fed.

The Abraham Lincoln Quote first appeared in a book from 1931 but was unsourced. Here is an article fully deconstructing that quote which gained in popularity after Al Gore used it in his book: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/08/AR2007060802470.html

The Thomas Jefferson quote is an amalgamation of some things he said but others are fabrications. Please read here for more info: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/jefferson/banks.asp

The Kennedy quote is in reference to communism, but is often taken out of context. Some executive orders he wrote did seem to be a major threat to the Fed with his creation of treasury notes instead of Federal Reserve Notes.

I don't have time now to cite other possible inaccuracies. The ones I sourced are merely because I had looked into them previously and could easily spot their falsehood. If I have time later today I will make an edit and include other research.

As I said, the main premise, I agree with. Just be careful using easily "debunked" information as it only hurts the cause of illuminating Truth.

EDIT: I see kahirsch already provided some links on the other political figures.

You beat me to it.

Lincoln never said that quote, here's snopes taking about it and here's someone else's decent research on the subject.

However, I agree with OP's premise, especially concerning Andrew Jackson on the 20, and I still think Lincoln probably agreed with those sentiments.

It's too bad fake historical quotes have essentially taken over the internet, because while many of them may ring true, they can be used to discredit those who are well-meaning and use them carelessly to prove their points.

Every time I read, or view, articles or documentaries concerning the Federal Reserve, I notice the irony of our featured presidents. Thanks to whoever compiled this in a simple and effective manner.

But if you look at it instead of high value of money being important, high circulation rate, and commonality of the currency being most important, then by putting GW on the 1$, we are giving him the most public exposure. Noone ever sees anybill higher than a 100 dollar bill, so they get no celebrity status.

Still You raise an interesting point.

WOW I have been saying this for years.. its nice to see someone else noticed too!

Lincoln never said "I see in the near future a crisis approaching..." Not to mention that he was a HUGE supporter of the idea of a central bank and corporate wellfare

FDR did say those words about money changers in his inaugural address, but the second quote was not said by him.

Ben Franklin also didnt say the quote you have attributed to him.

And according to Wikipedia, high-denomination bills were last printed in 1945 and officially discontinued on July 14, 1969, by the Federal Reserve System.

wow, front page? nah, we're just in the corral