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1. "The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity." ~ Martin Van Buren
2. "On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success." ~ Martin Van Buren
3. "No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration." ~ Martin Van Buren
4. "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." ~ Martin Van Buren
5. "As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it." ~ Martin Van Buren
6. "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." ~ Martin Van Buren
7. "Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished." ~ Martin Van Buren
8. "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." ~ Martin Van Buren
9. "The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant." ~ Martin Van Buren
10. "The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies." ~ Martin Van Buren
11. "For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it." ~ Martin Van Buren
12. "It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment." ~ Martin Van Buren
13. "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." ~ Martin Van Buren
14. "Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe." ~ Martin Van Buren
15. "I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor." ~ Martin Van Buren
16. "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." ~ Martin Van Buren
17. "Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches." ~ Martin Van Buren

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We all carry many selves, but in the end, these are just phantoms of possibility, nothing more than ghosts of broken destinies."
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