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John Tyler: “The United States would be at all times indisposed to aggrandize itself at the expense of any other nation.”

On the recordDecember 4, 1843
The United States would be at all times indisposed to aggrandize itself at the expense of any other nation.
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John Tyler
Whig · Virginia

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Third Annual Message

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