[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Um...yeah...your entire Jefferson quote is a hoax.

No, not the entire quote. The second part is close to the last sentence in a letter Jefferson wrote to John Taylor in 1816:

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.

[Toddsterpatriot]

The second part is close to the last sentence in a letter Jefferson wrote to John Taylor in 1816:

Fake but accurate?

banking institutions having the issuing power of money are more dangerous to liberty than standing armies

Railing against banks, not quite the same thing as....

swindling futurity on a large scale.

worrying about government borrowing

[10Ring]

OK, I'll play. Do we need to close the banks and disband the military?

"There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors that those governors, whether legislative or executive, should be restrained from keeping such instruments on foot but in well-defined cases. Such an instrument is a standing army." --Thomas Jefferson to David Humphreys, 1789. ME 7:323

I didn't even have to combine that with another quote.