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Quotation from Hayne's Reply to Webster (Speech on Foot's Resolution) by Robert Y. Hayne
“A moneyed interest in the government is essentially a base interest; and just so far as it operates to bind the feelings of those who are subjected to it to the government,—just so far as it operates in creating sympathies and interests that would not otherwise exist,—is it opposed to all the principles of free government, and at war with virtue and patriotism.”
Hayne's Reply to Webster (Speech on Foot's Resolution), Section on the national debt and pecuniary dependence (Webster and Hayne's Celebrated Speeches in the United States Senate (1853), Wikisource text)
Hayne rejects the idea that federal debt and spending are a legitimate means of holding the states together.
Citation: "A moneyed interest in the government is essentially a base interest; and just so far as it operates to bind the feelings of those who are subjected to it to the government,—just so far as it operates in creating sympathies and interests that would not otherwise exist,—is it opposed to all the principles of free government, and at war with virtue and patriotism." — Robert Y. Hayne, Hayne's Reply to Webster (Speech on Foot's Resolution), Section on the national debt and pecuniary dependence (Webster and Hayne's Celebrated Speeches in the United States Senate (1853), Wikisource text). (id hayne-speech-on-foots-resolution-q2)
Virtues: Temperance
Portrait: Robert Y Hayne, Unknown author, Public domain.
