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“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Speech, May 27, 1836.
- Type:
- Speech
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bac9d1cde733d44bda29da901ce18e09c6697685e5fd45d01748f685e4954450
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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