Comments on: Thomas Jefferson Bookmarks! http://www.ralree.com/2008/06/29/thomas-jefferson-bookmarks/ Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:33:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt Platte http://www.ralree.com/2008/06/29/thomas-jefferson-bookmarks/comment-page-1/#comment-1121 Matt Platte Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:36:00 +0000 http://www.ralree.info/2008/07/01/thomas-jefferson-bookmarks#comment-1121 “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. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin (1802) via Debtonation.org “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. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin (1802)

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