A Quote from Thomas Jefferson..

[The Sushi Bandit]

from a post in my blog almost 6 years ago (5-2-2003)....

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson

[parasim]

1. maybe not Tom...

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/jefferson/banks.asp

just sayin'...

[ORDagnabbit]

3. did you read the entirety of the snopes article? specifically his letter to john taylor

on 28 may 1816?

[Political Heretic]

2. Wow you should search for forums more. I just got corrected on this yesterday. :)

[ORDagnabbit]

4. well now you can go and correct them. here ya go..

And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.


last sentence in letter to john taylor dated may 28th 1815

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field(DOCID+@lit(tj110172))

[Dogmudgeon]

8. Everything is an Urban Legend, and everybody wants to be a debunker

That's a good link. (It's a shame it has to be hand-pasted into the URL box.)

Thanks for posting it.

--d!

[Sanctified]

9. That quote is extremely different than the one the OP listed. n/t

[ORDagnabbit]

5. link in the snopes article to jefferson quotes on money

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1325.htm

[hootinholler]

6. K&R for Tom and Grover! n/t

[Joe the Liberal]

7. Here's a few more.........

"The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity." -Abraham Lincoln



"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes... Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain." - Napoleon Bonaparte



"Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history." Karl Marx



"The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating." -Thomas Jefferson



"Issue of currency should be lodged with the government and be protected from domination by Wall Street. We are opposed to...provisions would place our currency and credit system in private hands." - Theodore Roosevelt