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"And I sincerely believe, with you, 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."
Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, Monticello, 28 May 1816. Ford 11:533

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs
Thomas Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, Monticello, 24 June 1813. Ford 11:303

a vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who, having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76, now look to a single and splendid government of an aristocracy, founded on banking institutions, and monied incorporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures, commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry.
Jefferson to William Branch Giles, December 26, 1825, in Ford, 10:356. Polygraph copy available online from the Library of Congress

Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!
From the original minutes of the Philadelphia committee of citizens sent to meet with President Jackson (February 1834), according to Andrew Jackson and the Bank of the United States (1928) by Stan V. Henkels
BTW - they attempted to assassinate him in a theater, like they did Linocln later.

Yeah, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson those horrible Marxists opposing illegal bank actions. SERIOUS sarcasm. OMG!

"You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!"

No public politician would dare say such a thing today. Ron Paul came the closest, and in response the banks' minions pushed the "He's a nut on foreign policy!" slogan through conservative media so hard that it convinced a good majority of those who should have been his natural allies in that fight to disown him.

They all - even Obama - know very well who they really work for...and it sure ain't us.