This is just a half-quote, the rest of it is here: http://www.black-stone.net/articles/economicfoundations.html Sir Josiah Stamp, Governor of the Bank of England wrote as follows: "The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding sleight of hand ever invented. Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin...Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again...Take this power away from them and all great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear for then this would be a better and happier world to live in...But if you want to continue to be the slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit."