Weak Men Quotes



Note the candor with which the Congress provided the truth to Americans about the financial situation of the nation. Despite the national crises and emergency of the war, the Congress told the truth and did not treat the citizens as children from whom bad news must be withheld. At the time, each state and many individual banks had their own paper currency, these could be easily counterfeited and were done so by the British to collapse the American economy. Because of this early traumatic experience with paper money, the United States did not use it for another 70 years.