John Tyler Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by John Tyler:
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.
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So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
~John Tyler
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Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.
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It is by these, the people, that I have been clothed with the high powers which they have seen fit to confide to their Chief Executive, and been charged with the solemn responsibility under which those powers are to be exercised.
~John Tyler
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Our wise men flattered us into the adoption of the banking system under the idea that boundless wealth would result from the adoption.
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Pleasure has ever more been represented by poets and by painters as clothed in perpetual smiles and adorned with the richest jewels; and in real life, we have known many who, allured by her deceptions, blandishments, and hollow but showy temptations, have followed as she pointed until ruin has befallen them.
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A republican government can only be supported by virtue; and the end of all our legislation should be to encourage our fellow citizens in its daily practice.
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I can never consent to being dictated to.
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We direct the destinies of a mighty continent. Our resources are unlimited: our means unbounded. If we be true to ourselves, the glory of other nations, in comparison to ours, shall resemble but a tale from the days of chivalry.
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Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.
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I am charged with violating pledges which I never gave; and because I execute what I believe to be the law, with usurping powers not conferred by law; and above all, with using the powers conferred upon the President by the Constitution, from corrupt motives and for unwarrantable ends.
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Nature governs man by no principle more fixed than that which leads him to pursue his interest.
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Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
~John Tyler
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A manufacturing nation is, in every sense of the word, dependent on others. Look to England! Cut off from the markets of the world, misery and ruin await her.
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Parties are continually changing. The men of today give place to the men of tomorrow, and the idols which one set worship, the next destroy.
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My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.
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This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be warped to the purposes of a casually ascendant influence.
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