Ran across this quote today:
"You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and the eternal God, I will rout you out. "
-Andrew Jackson, to a delegation of bankers, 1832.
How freaky is it that these days, President Andrew Jackson is best known as The Guy Whose Face Is On The Bills That Are Spat Out By ATMs. Does that qualify as irony? Or a cruel joke of fate? 
Old Hickory was a complete wildman – the type of American Original that would never make it in politics these days … we’re waaaaaayyy too watered down and polite to deal with somebody who actually believes in something and who has the guts to put his own ass on the line in its pursuit. Jackson was shot multiple times, had assassins try to kill him at funerals and tackled them and worked them over himself, and pretty much put the brakes on the way that the US was creeping towards an snooty oligarchy that was modeling itself on the ossified monarchies of Europe.
His whole "Man of the People" stance/attitude/meme has been copied many times since, but never equalled.
All this does not, of course, mean that I will in any way eschew the usage of ATMs, banks or the Yuppie Food Coupons that they dole out to me…