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JEFFERSON ON BANKS This just in: We tracked down the origin of this famous quote through the Wayback Machine, and finally hit pay dirt (below). However, there seems to have been a concerted effort to discredit the authenticity of the citation, as per the following three refs.: ...........Private Banks (Spurious Quotation) | Monticello image.jpeg monticello.org https://www.monticello.org › research-education › privat... Scholars do not believe Jefferson wrote or said, "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." Did Thomas Jefferson Say 'Banks and Corporations Will ... image.png Snopes.com https://www.snopes.com › Fact Check Claim: Thomas Jefferson said that “banks and corporations will deprive the people of all property.” Fact check by Snopes.com: Misattributed. . . . . . . . . And, as if desperately striving to dismiss the validity of the quotation's content, references to it have evidently been 'culture cance...