Quote from Thomas Jefferson

[dmano]

In light of the present financial crisis, it's now
 very  interesting to read what
  Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
"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."