Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Martin Van Buren Quotes Click here for Martin Van Buren books Martin Van Buren And The American Political System "All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess." "All communities are apt to look to government for too much. Even in our own country, where its powers and duties are so strictly limited, we are prone to do so, especially at periods of sudden embarrassment and distress." "It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't." "The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity." "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." "Unlike all who have preceded me, the Revolution that
gave us existence as one people was achieved at the period of my birth; and
whilst I contemplate with grateful reverence that memorable event, I feel that I
belong to a later age and that I may not expect my countrymen to weigh my
actions with the same kind and partial hand."
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