NB realized that sovereignty included the power to create money, and if that power was in private hands it could never be held accountable to the people. Unchecked and uncontrolled power is tyranny. "The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy spending power of the Government and the buying of consumers. The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of Governments, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity. By the adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. The financing of al public enterprises, and the conduct of he Treasury will become mattes of practical administration. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity." ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Probably some of the most accurate remarks made during the 20th Century on economics. Right up there with these: “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” - Henry Ford "We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by the means of the schools. We must acquire the direction of education, of the professorial chair, of church, and of the pulpit." ― Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati, proofs of a Conspiracy pg. 109-111 “The few who understand the system, will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors, that there will be no opposition from that class. The great body of people, mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantages, will bear its burden without complaint.” - Rothschild Brothers of London, 1863-Jun-25, in a letter to fellow members of the establishment "The only thing worse than big government is big government that is controlled by unrestrained big banking and big business." Jere L Hough 2009