Thomas Jefferson was concise in his early warning to the American nation, "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."


For anyone who actually cares about facts... Thomas Jefferson never made the above cited statement.  It is from a letter of an unknown source addressed to Secretary of Treasury Albert Gallatin in 1802.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gallatin

http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/private-banks-quotation