english

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

french

Je crois que les institutions banquaires sont plus dangereux pour notre libertes que les armees. Si le peuple americain accorde les banques privees de controler les choses de leur courant, premierement par l'inflation, puis par deflation, les banques et les corporations qui pousseront (les banques) priveront le peuple de tout le proprietes jusq'a ce que leurs enfants se reveillent sans foyer sur le continent leurs parents ont conquerissent.
stela_gima: Cet pouvoir doit etre pris de banques et restituer au peuple a qui appartient proprement.


Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

Translated by Steliana Gima