Martin Van Buren actually said...

A rigid and persevering abstinence from all interference with the domestic and political relations of other States...

It is understood that their respective examinations will throw new light upon the subject in controversy...

With all the powers of the world our relations are those of honorable peace.

They may be redeemed out of the accruing revenue if the expenditures do not exceed the amount within which they may, it is thought, be kept ...