Speech · Political speechLooking back to it as a sacred instrument carefully and not easily framed; remembering that it was throughout a work of concession and compromise; viewing it as limited to national objects; regarding it as leaving to the people and the States all power not explicitly parted with, I shall endeavor to preserve, protect, and defend it by anxiously referring to its provision for direction in every action.Martin Van BurenInaugural Address of Martin van Buren · 1837★ 3.6
Speech · Political speechWe have no disposition and we disclaim all right to meddle in disputes, whether internal or foreign, that may molest other countries, regarding them in their actual state as social communities, and preserving a strict neutrality in all their controversies.Martin Van BurenInaugural Address of Martin van Buren · 1837★ 1.9
Speech · Political speechThe last, perhaps the greatest, of the prominent sources of discord and disaster supposed to lurk in our political condition was the institution of domestic slavery.Martin Van BurenInaugural Address of Martin van Buren · 1837★ 1.9
Speech · Political speechIn all the attributes of a great, happy, and flourishing people we stand without a parallel in the world.Martin Van BurenInaugural Address of Martin van Buren · 1837★ 1.2
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