Here's a quote from a founding father you don't see very often. I think we

Here's a quote from a founding father you don't see very often. I think we
can all agree on his sentiments towards banks:

"...the evils flowing from the duperies of the people, are less injurious
than those from the egoism of their agents, I am a friend to that
composition of government which has in it the most of this ingredient. 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." [0]

- Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, May 28, 1816

The full letter is also at [1].

[0] http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field%28DOCID+@lit%28tj110172%29%29
[1] gopher://sdf.org/1/users/slugmax/docs/misc/jefferson_taylor_1816.txt