| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 101 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) |
| QUOTATION: | The bank mania is one of the most threatening of these imitations. It is raising up a monied aristocracy in our country which has already set the government at defiance, and although forced at length to yield a little on this first essay of their strength, their principles are unyielded and unyielding. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Josephus B. Stuart, May 10, 1817.—The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Andrew A. Lipscomb, vol. 15, p. 112 (1904). |
| SUBJECTS: | Banks and banking |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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