“Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.” 
― James A. Garfield (20th President of the United States of America) was shot in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881.