most prophetic quote ever??

[JOHN MATRIX]

"If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance 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." -Thomas Jefferson, 1791

found this on another site...seems like every aspect of what he predicted here is happening now

[Purge_WTF]

  The Founding Fathers knew best.

[Arnold jr]

"If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance 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." -Thomas Jefferson, 1791

found this on another site...seems like every aspect of what he predicted here is happening now

Jefferson spoke on this quite a bit, he and Adams both were convinced that this would one day happen. Adams told Jefferson that one day this system would fail, that because of the near limitless liberty they placed on the U.S. eventually corruption would seep in and destroy it. Jefferson agreed but he told Adams not to worry, he said the spirit of the American people was strong and that they would surpass even what they had done in their time. He told Adams, "Yes it will fail but they will make it right." Jefferson was convinced that the American people would hold to the truest meanings of liberty, even at the times of its greatest threat.

Some more great Jefferson quotes that I believe ring true today:

"Banking institutions, paper money, and paper speculation are capable of undermining the nation's stability and could be a danger in time of war. The Constitution does not empower the Congress to establish a National Bank. Rather than trust the nation's currency to private hands, the circulating medium should be restored to the nation itself to whom it belongs."

"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."

[Arnold jr]

More Economic Jefferson:

"I look back to the time of the war as a time of happiness and enjoyment, when amidst the privation of many things not essential to happiness, we could not run in debt, because nobody would trust us; when we practised by necessity the maxim of buying nothing but what we had money in our pockets to pay for; a maxim which, of all others, lays the broadest foundation for happiness. I see no remedy to our evils, but an open course of law. Harsh as it may seem, it would relieve the very patients who dread it, by stopping the course of their extravagance, before it renders their affairs entirely desperate."

"Every discouragement should be thrown in the way of men who undertake to trade without capital."

"Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own."

[JOHN MATRIX]

Jefferson spoke on this quite a bit, he and Adams both were convinced that this would one day happen. Adams told Jefferson that one day this system would fail, that because of the near limitless liberty they placed on the U.S. eventually corruption would seep in and destroy it. Jefferson agreed but he told Adams not to worry, he said the spirit of the American people was strong and that they would surpass even what they had done in their time. He told Adams, "Yes it will fail but they will make it right." Jefferson was convinced that the American people would hold to the truest meanings of liberty, even at the times of its greatest threat.

Some more great Jefferson quotes that I believe ring true today:

"Banking institutions, paper money, and paper speculation are capable of undermining the nation's stability and could be a danger in time of war. The Constitution does not empower the Congress to establish a National Bank. Rather than trust the nation's currency to private hands, the circulating medium should be restored to the nation itself to whom it belongs."

"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question."

lol thats exactly what happened in 1913. ol' jefferson seems like a damn smart dude...after i finish the book im on im going to move to the topic of the founding fathers...seems especially relevent these days

[Soul Crusher]

EVERYONE - READ THIS DAMN BOOK ASAP.