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From Quotes by Martin Van Buren
- I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
- 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…
- No evil can result from its [slavery's] inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
- No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
- 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…
- Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.
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