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"Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and 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. If I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, you say I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand familiesYou are a den of vipers and thieves." -Andrew Jackson