As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also t… - Thomas Jefferson

Nearly all of it is now called in by the banks, who have the regulation of the safety-valves of our fortunes, and who condense and explode them at their will.

I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property..[a] means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.

Paper is poverty,... it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.