From this view of the state of the finances and the public engagements yet to be fulfilled you will perceive that if Providence permits me to meet you at another session I shall have the high gratification of announcing to you that the national debt is extinguished.
Jackson anticipates the potential announcement of the national debt's extinction if he meets Congress again.
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If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.
The duty of every government [is so] to regulate its currency as to protect this numerous class.
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.
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