The gold and silver in your Treasury may be counted; it stands recorded, dollar for dollar, in the national ledger; but the sums which the unsuspected credit of a magnanimous nation can command are beyond the record of any ledger.
He points out that while tangible assets can be counted, the credit of a nation is immeasurable.
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