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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. - Alexander Hamilton Attribution: Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804), U.S. statesman. Letter, April 30, 1781 (1789-1795). Later, as secretary of the treasury, Hamilton sponsored legislation to pay off the debt of the Continental Congress, and to charter the short-lived Bank of the United States.

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