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There is but one reliance.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
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Reliance
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Most men are not scolded out of their opinion.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Men
Opinion
Scolded
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I shall tread in the footsteps of my illustrious predecessor.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Example
Footsteps
Predecessors
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It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Jobs
Quality
Business
Service Culture
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The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Dies
Monarchy
System
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The atonement of Jesus Christ is the only remedy and rest for my soul.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Jesus
Atonement
Christ
Soul
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Is it possible to be anything in this country without being a politician?
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Politics
Country
Politician
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No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Evil
Pernicious
Toleration
Inhibition
Result
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The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Efficient
People
Sober
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No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Evil
Presidential
Slavery
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The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Government
Presidential
Prosperity
General
Less
Interferes
Private
Pursuits
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The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Government
Excitement
Sober
Temporary
Guided
Second
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Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Russia
Sentiments
United States
Cherished
Mutually
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As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Office
Presidency
Presidential
Surrender
Two
Those
Days
Entrance
Happiest
My Life
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I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Trust
Men
Footsteps
Patriotic
People
Receiving
Sacred
Confided
Illustrious
Predecessor
Tread
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I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors it is our happiness to believe are not found on the executive calendar of any country.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Men
Believe
Country
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It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Home
Able
Cherokee
Mississippi
Pleasure
Removal
Sincere
West
Affords
Nation
Entire
Homes
Indians
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Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Agency
Forbearance
Mutual
Patriotic
Reciprocal
Established
Union
Sustain
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The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Government
Community
Reality
General
Banks
Connection
Existed
Interests
Large
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The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Law
Limits
President
Republic
Servant
Subjects
Supreme
Constitutional
Faithfully
Obeyed
Powers
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If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Acting
Avoided
Confined
Law
Left
Limits
States
Within
Interests
Private
Wherever
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The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Government
Home
Exception
Mississippi
Remove
Successful
Assigned
Efforts
Homes
Indians
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The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Fulfilled
Good Faith
Indian
Instance
Stipulations
Tribes
United States
Insisted
Performance
Obligations
Treaty
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The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Army
Employed
Establishment
Military
Past
States
Nearly
Carried
Effect
Organizing
Increasing
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Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Dependent
Prosperous
Risen
Colonies
Confederacy
Favor
Feeble
Gradually
Presents
Whose
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In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Government
Advantage
Benefits
Community
Diffusion
Augmented
Burdens
Characteristic
Distinguishing
Expense
Individuals
Large
Whose
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We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Consistent
Country
Effort
Honor
Nations
Position
Preservation
Rights
All Nations
Efforts
Maintain
Remain
Shall
Spared
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Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Beneficial
Conform
Country
Law
Long
Safe
Useful
Established
Banks
Business Long Will
Doubtless
Properly
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With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Government
Britain
Congress
Correspondence
Great Britain
Lasts
Sea
Session
Boundary
Official
Passed
Toward
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In receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided to my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Ability
Congratulations
Tasks
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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Equal
People
Receiving
Sacred
Tasks
Twice
Arduous
Perform
Confided
Expect
Faithfully
Illustrious
Predecessor
Task
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For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Adherence
Constitution
Framed
Strict
Myself Me Will
Calls
Declare
Designed
Govern
Letter
Principle
Therefore
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Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Branches
Congress
Exertion
House
House Of Representatives
Legislation
Relation
Representatives
Tobacco
Two
Wish
Carry
Proper
Resolutions
Several
Wishes
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In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal Government. Its limited range of constitutional duties may certainly under such circumstances be performed without such a resort.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Government
Debt
Events
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It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Government
Application
Country
Felony
Other Countries
Public Money
Punishment
Seems
Severe
Public
Countries
Early
Enactment
Officer
Private
Proper
Similar
Uses
Visited
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My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Accomplishment
Adapted
Conviction
Objects
Opinion
Regard
Safe Keeping
Public
Further
Legislative
Measures
Provisions
Submitted
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There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
God
Best
Men
Country
Hands
Honest
Incompetent
Opinion
Public Opinion
Thank God
Tolerate
Unworthy
Weak
Most
God Power Man
Public
Fortunes
Hold
His
Powers
Thank
Which
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Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Chiefs
Exciting
Firsts
Genius
Intrigue
Results
Universe
World
Changes
Gaining
Multitude
Produces
Resort
Second
Succeeded
Wrought
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The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Abandoned
Civilization
Country
Hunters
Prosperous
Tribes
Condition
Agricultural
Apart
Encourages
Hunter
Occupy
Pursuits
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With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Aspect
Difficulty
Discussion
Preservation
Subjects
Arisen
Cultivate
Powers
Terminated
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I am more than ever convinced of the dangers to which the free and unbiased exercise of political opinion - the only sure foundation and safeguard of republican government - would be exposed by any further increase of the already overgrown influence of corporate authorities.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Government
Exercise
Political Opinions
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To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Government
Debt
Patriotic
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I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well as a recognized duty, to listen patiently to what might be said to him upon any subject under consideration....Neither, I need scarcely say, was he in the habit of talking, much less boasting, of his own achievements.
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Men
Might
Talking
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I only look to the gracious protection of the Divine Being whose strengthening support I humbly solicit, and whom I fervently pray to look down upon us all. May it be among the dispensations of His Providence to bless our beloved country with honors and with length of days; may her ways beways of pleasantness, and all her paths be peace.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Country
Honor
Support
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Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to the crops, scaring the livestock, and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such break-neck speed.
Martin Van Buren / 8Th US President
Children
Fire
People
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