Martin Van Buren

“it is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didnt”

— Martin Van Buren

The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has…

— Martin Van Buren

I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.

— Martin Van Buren

I shall tread in the footsteps of my illustrious predecessor.

— Martin Van Buren

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever…

— Martin Van Buren

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country…

— Martin Van Buren

The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should…

— Martin Van Buren

No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

— Martin Van Buren

I only look to the gracious protection of the Divine Being whose strengthening support I humbly solicit, and whom I fervently pray…

— Martin Van Buren

In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal…

— Martin Van Buren

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general…

— Martin Van Buren

Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and…

— Martin Van Buren

To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the…

— Martin Van Buren

Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the…

— Martin Van Buren

There is but one reliance.

— Martin Van Buren

Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished.

— Martin Van Buren

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

— Martin Van Buren

With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has…

— Martin Van Buren

My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in…

— Martin Van Buren

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to…

— Martin Van Buren

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few…

— Martin Van Buren

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever…

— Martin Van Buren

Is it possible to be anything in this country without being a politician?

— Martin Van Buren

On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and…

— Martin Van Buren

Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco…

— Martin Van Buren