3 Martin Van Buren Quotes on Policy

Martin Van Buren quotes on policy

5. 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, we are prone to do so, especially at periods of sudden embarrassment and distress.

12. To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.

16. The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought