Tom Jefferson says: "END of DEMOCRACY if Corporations & Banks Take Over"

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02-01-2012, 06:51 AM

Veronica
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The Republican Party has long said "The US is NOT a DEMOCRACY" & spread that lie to all their members, making 50% of Americans totally "ignorant" of the truth.

THIS IS FROM the THOMAS JEFFERSON MEMORIAL WebPage:

The end of democracy...(Quotation)

Quotation: "The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations."

Variations: "The country is headed toward a government of an aristocracy founded on banking institutions and moneyed incorporations and if this tendency continues it will be the end of freedom and democracy, the few will be ruling...I hope we shall...crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to trial and bid defiance to the laws of our country. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."[1]

Sources consulted:

Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Digital Edition
Thomas Jefferson: Papers collection in Hathi Trust Digital Library
Retirement Papers

Status: Jefferson wrote in 1825 to William Branch Giles of "a vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who, having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76, now look to a single and splendid government of an aristocracy, founded on banking institutions, and monied incorporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures, commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."[3] Chomsky's 1994 book quotes Jefferson's 1825 letter to Giles and comments that "[Jefferson] warned that that would be the end of democracy and the defeat of the American revolution."

02-01-2012, 02:08 PM

Oconnor4Congress
Chinatown, NY
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you are right

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