Maybe people like the quote Thomas Jefferson during these trying times. A reader sent me this quote he made in 1802 and I found it quit disturbing.
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.
– Thomas Jefferson in 1802
I believe Mr. Jefferson was correct and so were our other founding fathers. It’s time for We The People to rise up and take our country back! It’s time that we start making the leaders of this country feel that wrath of We The People. Watch the video below to get some ideas.
on Mar 25th, 2009 at 11:27 am
haha i agree with this why doesent this guy run for Pres. lol. Im ready to stand for what i believe in america has lost her backbone let me know when a revolt is starting and im there.
on Apr 2nd, 2009 at 2:20 pm
In the old days they would refer to payday, as the day the eagle shit ! Now days they refer to payday as the day the canary farts !
on Jul 16th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
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on Aug 26th, 2010 at 11:40 am
umm…. Thomas Jefferson never said that specific quote. The words inflation and deflation were not even associated with currency in 1802. Look you people, instead of just popping out quotes and repeating them, learn your history.
on Feb 24th, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Repeating such pseudoquotations does credibility of the pseudoquoter no good. He did write disparagingly of banks and the gist of the bank portion of the pseudoquote can be found in letters he wrote that are preserved.
This does not prove he did not write such. It is simply not provable as not documented. That the words “inflation” and “deflation” were not in his day applied to economics does not prove that Jefferson did not so apply them. It is just not documented.
on Jun 7th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Snopes has quote listed as false. There are several versions, but they are all a misdirection of the truth. Given the current economic situation because taxpayer-funded government bailouts, it was only a matter of time until someone quoted a respected figure to say the economic mess was predictable and inevitable. And one could hardly find a more hallowed figure than Jefferson.