Madam, – This letter of Thomas Jefferson (third president of United States) to the secretary of the treasury Albert Gallatin in 1802 is as relevant today as it was then.
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the 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. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” – Yours, etc,