Quotes by Presidents Part 2

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                    John Quincy Adams - The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

John Quincy Adams - Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

John Quincy Adams - America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

                    James Buchanan - The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

James Buchanan - The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

                     Martin Van Buren - No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

 Martin Van Buren - The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

 Martin Van Buren - 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.

Martin Van Buren - 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.