THOMAS JEFFERSON FORESEES FASCIST TAKEOVER OF USA

Mankind soon learn to make interested uses

of every right and power which they possess, or may assume.

The public money and public liberty,

intended to have been deposited with three branches of magistracy,

but found inadvertently to be in the hands of one only,

will soon be discovered to be sources of wealth

and dominion to those who hold them;

distinguished, too, by this tempting circumstance,

that they are the instrument, as well as the object, of acquisition.

WITH MONEY WE WILL GET MEN, SAID CAESAR,

AND WITH MEN WE WILL GET MONEY.

(emphasis added)

— THOMAS JEFFERSON, Notes on Virginia