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As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.
~ Martin Van Buren
Days
Entrance
Happiest
Life
My Life
Office
Presidency
Surrender
Those
Two
Were
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Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.
~ Martin Van Buren
Banks
Beneficial
Business
Conform
Continue
Country
Doubtless
Established
Exist
Found
Highly
Laws
Long
Properly
Safe
States
Useful
Will
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Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished.
~ Martin Van Buren
Between
Cherished
Continue
Good
Mutually
Russia
Sentiments
States
United
United States
Will
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Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.
~ Martin Van Buren
Been
Branches
Carry
Congress
Continue
Every
Exertion
Has-Been
House
House Of Representatives
Legislation
Made
Out
Proper
Relation
Representatives
Resolutions
Several
Tobacco
Trade
Two
Will
Wishes
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For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
~ Martin Van Buren
Adherence
Calls
Constitution
Country
Declare
Designed
Desire
Duty
Framed
Govern
High
Letter
Me
Myself
Principle
Spirit
Strict
Therefore
Those
Which
Who
Will
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I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
~ Martin Van Buren
Footsteps
Men
People
Receiving
Sacred
Tread
Trust
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If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.
~ Martin Van Buren
Acting
Always
Avoided
Confined
Interests
Laws
Left
Limits
Possible
Private
Should
States
Wherever
Within
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In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.
~ Martin Van Buren
Advantage
Benefits
Burdens
Characteristic
Community
Diffusion
Distinguishing
Expense
Government
Individuals
Large
Should
Whose
Will
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It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.
~ Martin Van Buren
Able
Affords
Cherokee
Entire
Homes
Indians
Me
Mississippi
Nation
New
Pleasure
Removal
Sincere
West
You
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It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.
~ Martin Van Buren
Application
Countries
Early
Events
Government
Made
Money
Officer
Other
Other Countries
Private
Proper
Public
Public Money
Punishment
Seems
Severe
Should
Similar
Uses
Visited
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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
Agency
Established
Forbearance
Forever
Mutual
Patriotic
Reciprocal
Spirit
Sustain
Union
Which
Will
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My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.
~ Martin Van Buren
Accomplishment
Adapted
Been
Best
Conviction
Further
Legislative
Measures
Necessity
Objects
Opinion
Provisions
Public
Regard
Submitted
Those
You
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No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
~ Martin Van Buren
Evil
More
Result
Than
Toleration
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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 know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.
~ Martin Van Buren
Ability
Arduous
Equal
Expect
Faithfully
He
I Can
Know
People
Perform
Receiving
Sacred
Success
Task
Trust
Twice
Well
Which
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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 colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy.
~ Martin Van Buren
Colonies
Confederacy
Continue
Country
Dependent
Every
Favor
Feeble
Few
Gradually
Our
Powerful
Presents
Prosperous
Risen
Side
Whose
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The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.
~ Martin Van Buren
Assigned
Case
Efforts
Exception
Government
Homes
Indians
Mississippi
Only
Present
Remove
Successful
Them
West
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The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.
~ Martin Van Buren
Abandoned
Agricultural
Apart
Attention
Civilization
Condition
Country
Early
Encourages
Highly
Hope
Hunter
Most
Occupy
Part
Prosperous
Pursuits
Set
State
Them
Tribes
Turned
West
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The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.
~ Martin Van Buren
Banks
Between
Both
Community
Connection
Existed
General
Government
Interests
Large
Reality
Well
Which
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The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.
~ Martin Van Buren
Excitement
Government
Guided
Second
Should
Sober
Temporary
Thought
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The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.
~ Martin Van Buren
Army
Been
Carried
Effect
Employed
Establishment
Has-Been
Increasing
Law
Military
Nearly
Organizing
Past
Season
States
United
United States
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