Boston's Patriots: Quote of the Day: Thomas Jefferson

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Quote of the Day: Thomas Jefferson

Posted by Bishop Seabury, 5th CT Regiment

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and the 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.
- Thomas Jefferson

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