Andrew Jackson: “The experience of other nations admonished us to hasten the extinguishment of the public debt; but it will be in vain…”

“The experience of other nations admonished us to hasten the extinguishment of the public debt; but it will be in vain that we have congratulated each other upon the disappearance of this evil if we do not guard against the equally great one of promoting the unnecessary accumulation of public revenue.”