Thomas Jefferson Money Quotes
Thomas Jefferson – Birthday April 13, 1743 #ThomasJeffersonDay – Died on July 4, 1826
- The page discusses money quotes from Thomas Jefferson about money and banking
- Jefferson warns of the dangers of private banks controlling currency and inflating/deflating currency
- He believes banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies
- Jefferson says spending money to be paid in the future is “swindling futurity on a large scale”
- One quote says the modern theory of perpetuating debt has “drenched the earth with blood and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating”
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“That paper money has some advantages, is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable, and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied”
“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness“
“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale”
“The most successful war seldom pays for its losses“
“Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold“
Never spend your money before you have earned it
“The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money“
“Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor“
“The expenses of schools should be borne by the inhabitants of the county, every one in proportion to his general tax-rate. This would throw on wealth the education of the poor“
“Information is the currency of democracy”
“The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain”
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation then by deflation, the banks and the corporations 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 people, to whom it properly belongs”
The modern theory of the perpetuation of debt has drenched the earth with blood, and crushed its inhabitants under burdens ever accumulating