
Original engl.: " [..] 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." - Brief an John Taylor, 28. Mai 1816. In: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IV, hrsg. v. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, London 1829. S. 288 . Siehe auch Private Banks (Quotation) monticello.org http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/private-banks-quotation#_note-0