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So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.

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We direct the destinies of a mighty continent. Our resources are unlimited: our means unbounded. If we be true to ourselves, the glory of other nations, in comparison to ours, shall resemble but a tale from the days of chivalry.

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A manufacturing nation is, in every sense of the word, dependent on others. Look to England! Cut off from the markets of the world, misery and ruin await her.

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Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.

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A republican government can only be supported by virtue; and the end of all our legislation should be to encourage our fellow citizens in its daily practice.

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Our wise men flattered us into the adoption of the banking system under the idea that boundless wealth would result from the adoption.

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Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in real life, we have known many who, allured by her deceptions, blandishments, and hollow but showy temptations, have followed as she pointed until ruin has befallen them.

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Parties are continually changing. The men of today give place to the men of tomorrow, and the idols which one set worship, the next destroy.

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I am charged with violating pledges which I never gave; and because I execute what I believe to be the law, with usurping powers not conferred by law; and above all, with using the powers conferred upon the President by the Constitution, from corrupt motives and for unwarrantable ends.

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It is by these, the people, that I have been clothed with the high powers which they have seen fit to confide to their Chief Executive, and been charged with the solemn responsibility under which those powers are to be exercised.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: March 29th, 1790

Died: January 18th, 1862

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