12/17/1843
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"The United States would be at all times indisposed to aggrandize itself at the expense of any other nation."
"It can not be too often repeated that the prominent interest of every important pursuit of life requires for success permanency and stability in legislation."
"I shall be permitted to exchange congratulations with you, gentlemen of the two Houses of Congress, on these auspicious circumstances."
"It is time that this war had ceased."