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.

US Founding Father, Declaration of Independence

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Letter to John Taylor

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1816

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https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-10-02-0453

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