The safest and simplest mode of obviating all the difficulties which have been mentioned is to collect only revenue enough to meet the wants of the Government, and let the people keep the balance of their property in their own hands, to be used for their own profit.
Jackson advocates for a revenue collection method that allows people to retain their property for personal use.
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It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.
If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.
The power, however, is in your hands, and the remedy must and will be applied if you determine upon it.
The duty of every government [is so] to regulate its currency as to protect this numerous class.
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