Carolina QuotesI am one of those who do not believe the national debt is a national blessing... it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.
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Andrew Jackson, letter to L. H. Coleman of Warrenton, North Carolina (29 April 1824)
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- 1824
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