Martin Van Buren actually said...

"Our safest reliance for financial efficiency and independence has, on the contrary, been found to consist in ample resources unencumbered with debt..."

"Thus believing, it has been my purpose to secure to the whole people and to every member of the Confederacy, by general, salutary, and equal laws alone, the benefit of those republican institutions wh..."

"The known necessity which so many of the States will be under to impose taxes for the payment of the interest on their debts furnishes an additional and very cogent reason why the Federal Government s..."

"With all the powers of the world our relations are those of honorable peace."