Quotes from James K. Polk

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

No union exists between church and state, and perfect freedom of opinion is guaranteed to all sects and creeds.

The Constitution itself, plainly written as it is, the safeguard of our federative compact, the offspring of concession and compromise, binding together in the bonds of peace and union this great and increasing family of free and independent States, will be the chart by which I shall be directed.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.

We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

It is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling interests, that the Pacific Coast and, indeed, the whole of our territory west of the Rocky Mountains, should speedily be filled up by a hardy and patriotic population.

The Senate are a branch of the treaty-making power, and by consulting them in advance of his own action upon important measures of foreign policy which may ultimately come before them for their consideration, the President secures harmony of action between that body and himself.

Under the benignant providence of Almighty God the representatives of the States and of the people are again brought together to deliberate for the public good.

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.