The Founders on Economics

• "I am for government rigorously frugal and simple.  Were we directed from Washington when to sow, when to reap, we should soon have no bread." - Thomas Jefferson
• "If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issue of their money, fist by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson
• "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better then the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.  We ask not your counsels or your arms.  Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.  May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams