December 23rd, 1913 Woodrow Wilson signs the Federal Reserve Act while most of congress is away on vacation. The Federal Reserve Act which gave private interests control of economic power over the United States.
Woodrow Wilson after signing the federal reserve act:
“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world – no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”