"I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country."
-- Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) 7th US President
Source: in a letter to T. H. Colman, 26 April 1824
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Andrew.Jackson.Quote.5038
"Governments do not govern, but merely control the machinery of government, being themselves controlled by the hidden hand."
-- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) Prime Minister of England, British statesman, novelist
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Benjamin.Disraeli.Quote.504D
"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."
-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source: letter to John Taylor in 1816
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.3778
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