I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.
Thomas JeffersonI have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.
Thomas JeffersonThe true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign affairs. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our General Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very inexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants.
Thomas JeffersonNo nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage
Thomas JeffersonThe Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson