Martin Van Buren actually said...

"It is by adopting and carrying out these principles under circumstances the most arduous and discouraging that the attempt has been made, thus far successfully, to demonstrate to the people of the Uni..."

"A rigid and persevering abstinence from all interference with the domestic and political relations of other States..."

"They may be redeemed out of the accruing revenue if the expenditures do not exceed the amount within which they may, it is thought, be kept without prejudice to the public interest."

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