I received an email this morning containing several quotes from Thomas Jefferson plus one I’d not heard before that didn’t quite sound like Jefferson:
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. 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.
Snopes agrees. The quote was hidden until about a century after Jefferson’s death, and then it was attributed to multiple unconfirmed sources. Ahead of his time as always, Jefferson even used words not yet in the lexicon.
