American - President | March 29, 1790 - January 18, 1862
Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.
John Tyler
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The sailor's life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in the battle and in the storm, and never did more distinguished chivalry display itself than in the conduct of our seamen during the late war.
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I can never consent to being dictated to.
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I should be pleased to see all the nations on the earth prosperous and happy and rich, for it would furnish to me the best evidence of the prosperity of my native land.
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Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.
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Parties are continually changing. The men of today give place to the men of tomorrow, and the idols which one set worship, the next destroy.
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Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in real life, we have known many who, allured by her deceptions, blandishments, and hollow but showy temptations, have followed as she pointed until ruin has befallen them.
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Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.
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Our wise men flattered us into the adoption of the banking system under the idea that boundless wealth would result from the adoption.
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So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
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This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be warped to the purposes of a casually ascendant influence.
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My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.
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