I feel that I should not perform my duty by a simple announcement of my approval of the joint resolution, without expressing my earnest desire that measures such in substance as those I have just referred to may receive the early sanction of Congress.
Message to Congress on Printing Money
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If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
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