"Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its power. But the truth is, the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the government of the United States. It controls everything here; and it controls our foreign relations. It makes or breaks governments at will. No man, and no body of men, is more entrenched in power than the arrogant credit monopoly which operates the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks. These evildoers have robbed this country of more than enough money to pay the national debt... Faithless government officers who have violated their oaths of office should be impeached and brought to trial." ~ Congressman Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, before the House of Representatives, in the midst of the Great Depression, 1932.