Martin Van Buren actually said...

"I can not be mistaken, I am confident, in counting on the cordial and general concurrence of our fellow-citizens in this sentiment."

"By no country or persons have these invaluable principles of international law--principles the strict observance of which is so indispensable to the preservation of social order in the world--been mor..."

"The close bonds of social intercourse have in no instance prevailed with such harmony over a space so vast."

"But whether the interest or the honor of the United States requires that they should be made a party to any such struggle, and by inevitable consequence to the war which is waged in its support, is a ..."