James K Polk Quotes
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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.
— James K. Polk
Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
— James K. Polk
The gratitude ... should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy.
— James K. Polk
I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.
— James K. Polk
There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
— James K. Polk
No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.
— James K. Polk
We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.
— James K. Polk
It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits ...
— James K. Polk
I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.
— James K. Polk
Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
— James K. Polk
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
— George Orwell
Although most Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, few could agree on exactly which lands the United States was supposed to govern.
— Charles W. Carey Jr.
I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
— Lynda Barry
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
— James K. Polk
If you pretend to know you aren't going to actually learn.
— Louise Penny
The Presidency is not a bed of roses.
— James K. Polk
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
— James K. Polk
I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.
— Charles Olson
