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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Thomas Jefferson on Banks


"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." Thomas Jefferson, from a letter to John Taylor May 28, 1816

2 comments:

  1. What would Jefferson have had to say about the Federal Reserve Bank, which Ron Paul has promised to abolish when he becomes president?

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  2. "By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some....The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose." - John Maynard Keynes Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920

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