Our duty as well as our best interests prompts us to observe in all our intercourse with them fidelity in fulfilling our engagements, the practice of strict justice, as well as the constant exercise of acts of benevolence and kindness.
Tyler advocates for a policy of justice and kindness in dealings with Native American tribes, emphasizing moral obligations.
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Our prayers should evermore be offered up to the Father of the Universe for His wisdom to direct us in the path of our duty so as to enable us to consummate these high purposes.
I did not consider the irregularities into which the surveyor-general had fallen as of sufficient magnitude to induce his dismissal from office at the time that the papers reached me
I have been influenced by what appeared to me to be the most controlling considerations of public policy and the general good.
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