
“I am an enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but coin.”
Letter to Thomas Cooper, 1814. ME 14:61
Posthumous publications, On financial matters
Source: Corridors (1982), p. 144 in The Nebula Awards 18 edited by Robert Silverberg
“I am an enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but coin.”
Letter to Thomas Cooper, 1814. ME 14:61
Posthumous publications, On financial matters
Congress have established a mint to coin money and passed laws to regulate the value thereof. The money so coined, with its value so regulated, and such foreign coins as Congress may adopt are the only currency known to the Constitution. But if they have other power to regulate the currency, it was conferred to be exercised by themselves, and not to be transferred to a corporation. If the bank be established for that purpose, with a charter unalterable without its consent, Congress have parted with their power for a term of years, during which the Constitution is a dead letter. It is neither necessary nor proper to transfer its legislative power to such a bank, and therefore unconstitutional.
Often paraphrased as: If Congress has the right under the constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to be used by themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations.
1830s
Source: Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/ajveto01.asp (10 July 1832)
“The sun has burst the sky
Because I love you
And the river its banks.”
Poem The sun has burst the sky http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-sun-has-burst-the-sky/
“Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.”
Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole
Source: Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom, P.x
“Time past was nothing, no matter how long. Time ahead was everything, no matter how brief.”
Source: Grass (1989), Chapter 17 (p. 385)