Quote #14

I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.

More from James K. Polk

  1. I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.
  2. No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. If he entrusts the details and smaller matters to…
  3. Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate…
  4. With me it is emphatically true that the presidency is 'no bed of roses.'
  5. There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress, as well as others, than I had any conception [of], before I became …
  6. Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.
  7. The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of t…
  8. It becomes us, in humility, to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, for the inestimable civil and religiou…

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