"If our country can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good, makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and and the bill is the bond let's money brokers collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%, where as the currancy pays nobody but those who contribute directly in some useful way. It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30 million in bonds and not $30 million in currancy. Both are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the usurers and the other helps the people."

-Thomas Eddison