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Top 30 Martin Van Buren Quotes (2025 Update)

Martin Van Buren Quote: “It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.”

1. “It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “The atonement of Jesus Christ is the only remedy and rest for my soul.”

2. “The atonement of Jesus Christ is the only remedy and rest for my soul.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.”

3. “The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “I shall tread in the footsteps of my illustrious predecessor.”

4. “I shall tread in the footsteps of my illustrious predecessor.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.”

5. “In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “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 possess. Look, being a lame flunky for a batshit crazy person isn’t all that bad. Stay alive long enough and you may sneak your way to Washington!”

6. “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 possess. Look, being a lame flunky for a batshit crazy person isn’t all that bad. Stay alive long enough and you may sneak your way to Washington!”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.”

7. “I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “Most men are not scolded out of their opinion.”

8. “Most men are not scolded out of their opinion.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.”

9. “On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “There is but one reliance.”

10. “There is but one reliance.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.”

11. “The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors it is our happiness to believe are not found on the executive calendar of any country.”

12. “I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men, whose superiors it is our happiness to believe are not found on the executive calendar of any country.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.”

13. “Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.”

14. “If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.”

15. “Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.”

— Martin Van Buren

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Martin Van Buren Quote: “Is it possible to be anything in this country without being a politician?”

16. “Is it possible to be anything in this country without being a politician?”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.”

17. “The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.”

18. “The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal Government. Its limited range of constitutional duties may certainly under such circumstances be performed without such a resort.”

19. “In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal Government. Its limited range of constitutional duties may certainly under such circumstances be performed without such a resort.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “Errors were doubtless committed on all sides, delusions set on foot which there was not time to dissipate and means, designed for good ends, perverted to bad purposes.”

20. “Errors were doubtless committed on all sides, delusions set on foot which there was not time to dissipate and means, designed for good ends, perverted to bad purposes.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “I am more than ever convinced of the dangers to which the free and unbiased exercise of political opinion – the only sure foundation and safeguard of republican government – would be exposed by any further increase of the already overgrown influence of corporate authorities.”

21. “I am more than ever convinced of the dangers to which the free and unbiased exercise of political opinion – the only sure foundation and safeguard of republican government – would be exposed by any further increase of the already overgrown influence of corporate authorities.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.”

22. “My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.”

23. “Every proper exertion has been made and will be continued to carry out the wishes of Congress in relation to the tobacco trade, as indicated in the several resolutions of the House of Representatives and the legislation of the two branches.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.”

24. “It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.”

25. “The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “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.”

26. “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.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.”

27. “With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished.”

28. “Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good will continue to be mutually cherished.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.”

29. “The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.”

— Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Quote: “The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.”

30. “The law increasing and organizing the military establishment of the United States has been nearly carried into effect, and the Army has been extensively and usefully employed during the past season.”

— Martin Van Buren

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