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Jim's Quote of the Day:
"Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced
that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of
the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you
lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from
the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may
be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will
ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers
and thieves." - President Andrew Jackson, when he forced the closing of
the Second
Bank of the U.S., by revoking its charter
