Posted on 03/23/2009 1:16:07 PM PDT by cowboyusa
Did JC ever decide who to vote for?
The founders wer unbelievably brilliant:
Thomas Jefferson said in 1842: “I believe banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people 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 the banks will deprive the people of all properties until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
What’s up with this? Didn’t Jefferson die in 1826?
He did. I thought about changing this, but I decided to leave the article as written.
And long lived...
He died in 1826.
Ahh, you made the same point. That’s the problem with an innocent typo early in a thread. That’s what people will focus on instead of the intent of the post. :(
I was very disappointed that JC was very unenthusiastic about the Republican candidate this last election.
I believe that McCaniac would have over the long four years of office, out performed Jug head Obama and his Bevis sidekicks.
Maybe the Republicans will someday nominate a candidate not hand picked by the New York Times.
JC,
You still a Big 0 supporter?
If not, welcome back. We need you — if you are with us. Otherwise, Adios Amigo.
The quote itself was terrific. I just don’t want people to dismiss the quote because the date was wrong. Not that many here would do that, I’m just sayin’....
Maybe so, but after 16 years in the after life, you would expect him to know a lot.
Last time I heard him on Hannity he was undecided on whether he would vote for Obama due to the “historical significance” of electing a black president.
Seemed to me just another black politician in the vein of Colin Powell or Michael Steele, unprincipled of value and color-biased.
Exactly! By the fact that he backed such an unabashed Marxist based on skin color shows he’s not a conservative. He’s not even a RINO.
The couple of times I heard him speak, he was a poor speaker. He made GWB look like Will Rogers.
Screw you Watts, Rice, Powell and all of the a*s*h*l*s who voted for race only. They chose to ignore the warnings about Barry.
Are they happy now?
Yes, Watts supported the Republican, even had a good line of “big business is small business”, context meaning over-taxing any business is wrong, seen him on c-span, Colin Powell was the kind of Republican trader fit for the media, not Watts
Color is EVERYTHING.
http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Private_Banks_(Quotation)
""Earliest known appearance in print: 1937
Other attributions: None known.
Status: This quotation is at least partly spurious; see comments below.
Comments: This quotation is often cited as being in an 1802 letter to Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, and/or "later published in The Debate Over the Recharter of the Bank Bill (1809)."
The first part of the quotation ("If the American people 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") has not been found anywhere in Thomas Jefferson's writings, to Albert Gallatin or otherwise. It is identified in Respectfully Quoted as spurious, and the editor further points out that the words "inflation" and "deflation" did not come into use until 1864 and 1920, respectively. [3]
The second part of the quotation ("I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies...") may well be a paraphrase of a statement Jefferson made in a letter to John Taylor in 1816. He wrote, "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."[4]
The third part of this quotation ("The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs") may be a misquotation of Jefferson's comment to John Wayles Eppes, "Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs." [5]
Lastly, we have not found a record of any publication called The Debate Over the Recharter of the Bank Bill. There was certainly debate over the recharter of the National Bank leading up to its expiration in 1811, but a search of Congressional documents of that period yields none of the verbiage discussed above.
See this article's Discussion page for further insight into the formation and use of the latter portion of this quotation. ""
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