Martin Van Buren actually said...

"The weight which presses upon a large portion of the people and the States is an enormous debt, foreign and domestic."

"I regret to state the appearance of a different spirit among Her Majesty's subjects in the Canadas."

"It is indispensable that its finances should be untrammeled and its resources as far as practicable unencumbered."

"I can not think that a serious objection would anywhere be raised to the receipt and payment of gold and silver in all public transactions were it not from an apprehension that a surplus in the Treasu..."