I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. - Thomas Jefferson
As one might guess based on the multiple anachronisms, that's not an actual Jefferson quote (that and the fact that Jefferson favored the private issuance of currency). It's also completely irrelevant to the idiotic proposition in the OP (banks should not only be bailed out, but also nationalized! "Public utilities," especially banks, are among the most frequently failing and bailed-out institutions, so of course that males sense!).
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