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American foreign policy1 quote
We 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 Buren · 1837American government1 quote
The perpetuity of our institutions depends upon ourselves...if we maintain the principles on which they were established they are destined to confer their benefits on countless generations yet to come. — Martin Van Buren · 1837American pride1 quote
In all the attributes of a great, happy, and flourishing people we stand without a parallel in the world. — Martin Van Buren · 1837American prosperity1 quote
In all the attributes of a great, happy, and flourishing people we stand without a parallel in the world. — Martin Van Buren · 1837Citizen and state1 quote
The perpetuity of our institutions depends upon ourselves...if we maintain the principles on which they were established they are destined to confer their benefits on countless generations yet to come. — Martin Van Buren · 1837Early America1 quote
In all the attributes of a great, happy, and flourishing people we stand without a parallel in the world. — Martin Van Buren · 1837Holding to one's principles1 quote
The perpetuity of our institutions depends upon ourselves...if we maintain the principles on which they were established they are destined to confer their benefits on countless generations yet to come. — Martin Van Buren · 1837Isolationism1 quote
We 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 Buren · 1837Non-intervention1 quote
We 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 Buren · 1837Slavery1 quote
The 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 Buren · 1837US Constitution1 quote
Looking 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 Buren · 1837