"I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor."
-Martin Van Buren
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"The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.“
-Martin Van Buren
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"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity."
-Martin Van Buren
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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
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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
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"With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session."
-Martin Van Buren
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"We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions."
-Martin Van Buren
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"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
-J. R. R. Tolkien
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"I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels."
-Pearl S. Buck
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."
-Miguel de Unamuno
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"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."
-H. L. Mencken
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"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."
-Albert Schweitzer
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