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“(Jefferson) was deeply suspicious of Hamilton's assumption plan (by which the nation would assume responsibility for the states' individual war debts.) He feared this…

— Jay Winik

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." ---Thomas Jefferson”

— Henry Makow

The Congress has had an uneasy relationship with banks and bankers since Alexander Hamilton. It took the United States until 1913 to set up…

— Robert Zoellick

“To achieve these Jeffersonian ends, Alexander Hamilton—Jefferson’s philosophical rival—devised an ingenious strategy that entailed a strong manufacturing base, a national banking system, a centralized…

— Patrick Mendis

“As far as they were concerned, if the U.S. government did not extinguish its debt, there would always be public creditors. Those creditors, who…

— Kevin R.C. Gutzman

“Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out…

— R.B. Bernstein

“believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set…

— Mark Goodwin

The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of 1819 as…

— Murray Rothbard

“From that point on, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and a few other intimates made it their first priority to arrange a deal with Hamilton—letting him…

— Anonymous

“Washington, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson had imagined the American experiment coming to all sorts of bad ends. They never imagined the Federal…

— Walter A. McDougall

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson hated each other so much. But that hate that they had for each other did not come before the…

— David Scott

“Both Hamilton and Madison were rational men who assumed that people often acted irrationally because of ambition and avarice. Madison wrote, “If men were…

— Ron Chernow