Beloved Quote by 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 been extensively…

— 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 sustain it.

— 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 calls me…

— 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 be faithfully…

— Martin Van Buren

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

— 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 Government. Its…

— 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 interests of…

— 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 limb of…

— 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 policy of…

— Martin Van Buren