Martin Van Buren actually said...

"The deepest recesses of the wilderness have been penetrated; yet instead of the rudeness in the social condition consequent upon such adventures elsewhere, numerous communities have sprung up, already..."

"A copy of the proclamation which I have felt it my duty to issue is herewith communicated."

"The present year closes the first half century of our Federal institutions."

"It was reserved for the American Union to test the advantages of a government entirely dependent on the continual exercise of the popular will."