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 money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.
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President Thomas Jefferson
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Most people are unaware that the Federal Reserve is a private organization that is unelected and unaccountable. They put more money into the economy whenever they choose. This leads to an inflation tax. This is what caused the Roman Empire to collapse.
