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Martin Van Buren: Frasi in inglese

“All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.”

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Martin Van Buren

Inaugural address (1837)

“The practice of all my predecessors imposes on me an obligation I cheerfully fulfill—to accompany the first and solemn act of my public trust with an avowal of the principles that will guide me in performing it and an expression of my feelings on assuming a charge so responsible and vast.”

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Martin Van Buren

Inaugural address (1837)

“I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men… in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.”

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Martin Van Buren

Inaugural address (1837)

“From a small community we have risen to a people powerful in numbers and in strength; but with our increase has gone hand in hand the progress of just principles.”

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Martin Van Buren

Inaugural address (1837)

“May her ways be ways of pleasantness and all her paths be peace!”

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Martin Van Buren

Inaugural address (1837)

“There is a power in public opinion in this country- and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers- which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.”

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Martin Van Buren

As quoted by William A. DeGregorio, The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984) p. 133

“How imperious, then, is the obligation imposed upon every citizen, in his own sphere of action, whether limited or extended, to exert himself in perpetuating a condition of things so singularly happy.”

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Martin Van Buren

Inaugural address (1837)

“Present excitement will at all times magnify present dangers, but true philosophy must teach us that none more threatening than the past can remain to be overcome; and we ought (for we have just reason) to entertain an abiding confidence in the stability of our institutions and an entire conviction that if administered in the true form, character, and spirit in which they were established they are abundantly adequate to preserve to us and our children the rich blessings already derived from them, to make our beloved land for a thousand generations that chosen spot where happiness springs from a perfect equality of political rights.”

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Martin Van Buren

Inaugural address (1837)

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