Quote #6

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

More from Martin Van Buren

  1. All communities are apt to look to government for too much. Even in our own country, where its powers and duties are so strictly limited, w…
  2. No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
  3. For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict…
  4. On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and s…
  5. As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.
  6. The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
  7. All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to pos…
  8. The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.

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