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By John Tyler
...it shall be my first and highest duty to preserve unimpaired the free institutions under which we live and transmit them to those who shall succeed me in their full force and vigor.
- Source
- Address Upon Assuming the Office of President of the United States, April 9, 1841
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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The closing sentence of Tyler's address to the people on April 9, 1841.