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I believe he was about to sumfin!
â€If the American individuals 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 them 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 public to whom it properly belongs.â€
-- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin (1802)