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Yet it behooves us to be prepared for any event and to be always ready to maintain those just and enlightened principles of national intercourse for which this Government has ever contended.
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gutenberg.orgMartin Van Buren: “Yet it behooves us to be prepared for any event and to be always ready to maintain those just and enlightened principles…”
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Van Buren stresses the need for preparedness in foreign affairs to uphold national principles.
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