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• To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one…
• The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
• If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy…
• What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
• I like the noise of democracy.
• The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
• No form of government, however admirable in itself and however productive of material benefits, can compensate for the loss of peace and…
• Time is a great corrective. Political subjects which but a few years ago excited and exasperated the public mind have passed away…
• I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.
• It is the imperative and indispensable duty of the Government of the United States to secure to every resident inhabitant the free…
• I feel an humble confidence that the kind Providence which inspired our fathers with wisdom to frame the most perfect form of…
• Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body.

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