Thomas Jefferson Quote about Banks

A Penny for your Thoughts. It's the thought that counts. Count the Cost. Make it make Cents. A penny saved, is a penny earned. "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 [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." "I sincerely believe 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."--Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23; @OneJoyfulNoise @SongofGrace