Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world. -James Polk

 

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.


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The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.

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Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

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He is kind of a ladies' man, too. -James Polk
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One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

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The gratitude of the nation to the Sovereign Arbiter of All Human Events should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy.

James Polk
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Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States. -James Polk
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We can cite them for violations, but we don't have enforcement powers.

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