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It does look suspicious to me. It's tough to put my finger on, but the phraseology doesn't look very 18th century. It doesn't sound like other Jefferson writing to me either. Also Jefferson is a rather conveniently famous and beloved figure to tag it onto if you aren't sure (or don't happen to like who really said it...)
With a fairly thorough googling, I ...
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The actual quote which is attributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild is:
Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws!
A number of sources (such as this one) claim that this statement was made in 1838 (which would have been a difficult feat as he would have been dead for 26 years by then). Wikiquote claims that ...
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Wikiquote renders it
No one dances sober, unless he is insane.
The quotation is
Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit.
from Pro Murena vi.13, 63 BC. Cato has accused L. Murena of dancing, and Cicero replies that Murena is accused of dancing but not of activities that would be precursors to dancing. Cicero says no sane man would ...
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This quote is being attributed to Winston Churchill, e.g. here: http://runmen.mmm-tasty.ru/entries/3465785. The Russian text on that page is literally the one you asked about (and the book you were reading is apparently this one). While it sounds like something that Churchill could have said given the British WW2 history, all the citations have a newer date ...
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Yes, I'm having trouble too locating it in the 1839 L'Organisation du travail.
The earliest mention I've been able to find is from Louis Blanc 1851 brochure Plus de Girondins page 92: http://books.google.ca/books?id=KFc9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA92 supported by the French Wikipedia ...
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It was John Maynard Keynes who famously said, "Practical men who believe themselves exmept from any intellectual influences, are usually the slave of some defunct economist." Rothschild's statement (above) echoed this sentiment, meaning, "Let me control a country's economy and the laws that it passes will follow naturally from this economy."
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The most all encompassing quote I can find is this:
The newspaper report that about a fortnight ago my eldest son Harilal, now nearing fifty years, accepted Islam and that on Friday last 29th May in the midst of a large congregation in the Juma Masjid at Bombay he was permitted to announce his acceptance amid great acclamation and that after his speech ...
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