“I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.”

—  Rutherford B. Hayes

Letter to Austin Birchard (21 April 1874), when he was approximately $46,000 in debt.
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

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