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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."
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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."
"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."
"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."
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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."
"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."
"The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought."
"I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor."
"The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished."
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