“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
“Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance.”
“The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
— Thomas Jefferson, to Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin