The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication…

Thomas Jefferson
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The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin, p.440
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