JEFFERSON ON BANKING
by Thomas Jefferson |
In addition to Jefferson's well known animosity to paper money, readers will find documented here his correspondence with a number of contemporary luminaries, including the noted French economist Jean Baptiste Say (laissez-faire French economist and originator of such expressions as "if you build it, they will come"), the American business tycoon John Jacob Astor, as well as Jefferson's views on religion and the Illuminati of Adam Weishaupt.
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, editor: H.A. Washington, New York: H.W. Derby, 1861.
To James Madison, Paris, Sept. 6, 1789 - The Earth belongs to the living.
To Colonel Monroe, Philadelphia, July 10, 1791 - Bank paper for 13%.
To George Washington, Philadelphia, May 23, 1792 - [xx]
To John Taylor, Monticello, November 26, 1798 - Constitutional Amendments.
To Bishop James Madison, Philadelphia, Jan. 31, 1800 - On Adam Weishaupt.
To Albert Gallatin, Washington, December 13, 1803 - No government is safe.
To John Jacob Astor, Monticello, May 24, 1812 - On the new country.
To John Jacob Astor, Monticello, Nov. 9, 1813 - On the new empire.
To John W. Eppes, Monticello, June 24, 1813 - The Earth belongs to the living.
To John W. Eppes, [xx], Sept. 11, 1813 - Bank paper must be suppressed. [xx]
To John W. Eppes, Monticello, Nov. 16, 1813 - National Bank.
To Thomas Cooper, Monticello, Jan. 16, 1814 - I am the enemy of all banks.
To Joseph Cabell, Monticello, Jan. 17, 1814 - Banks and their paper.
To Thomas Cooper, Monticello, Sept. 10, 1814 - Evils of banking.
To James Monroe, Monticello, Jan. 1, 1815 - Dominion over mind.
To Jean Baptiste Say, Monticello, March 2, 1815 - Banking confederacy.
To Albert Gallatin, Monticello, Oct. 16, 1815 - Prohibition on private paper.
To Charles Yancey, Monticello, Jan. 6, 1816 - Clamoring for more banks.
To John Taylor, [xx], May 28, 1816 - System of banking.
To Samuel Kervichal, [xx], July 12, 1816 - Debt, taxes, generations.
To Joseph Stuart, Monticello, May 10, 1817 - [x]
To Nathaniel Macon, Monticello, Jan. 12, 1819 - [xx]
To John Adams, Monticello, Mar. 21, 1819 - [xx]
To John Adams, Monticello, Nov. 7, 1819 - [xx]
To William C. Rives, Monticello, Nov. 28, 1819 - [xx]
To Hugh Nelson, Monticello, March 12, 1820 - [xx]
To Mrs. Samuel H. Smith, Monticello, Aug. 6, 1816 - On religion.
To Thomas Ritchie, Monticello, Dec. 25, 1820 - On judicial subversion.
To James Monroe, Monticello, Oct. 24, 1823 - On the Monroe Doctrine.
To John Cartwright, Monticello, June 5, 1824 - The Earth belongs to the living.
