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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. 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."
By: | Thomas Jefferson (more quotes by Thomas Jefferson or books by/about Thomas Jefferson) |
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President | |
Source: | Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802) |
Categories: | Fed, Freedom, IMF, Money, Power, Liberty, Banking, President |
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