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By Zachary Taylor
...let us seek to deserve that continuance by prudence and moderation in our councils, by well-directed attempts to assuage the bitterness which too often marks unavoidable differences of opinion, by the promulgation and practice of just and liberal principles, and by an enlarged patriotism, which shall acknowledge no limits but those of our own widespread Republic.
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- Inaugural Address, March 5, 1849
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- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From the close of Taylor's inaugural address on March 5, 1849. 'That continuance' is the protecting care of Providence that he has just asked the country to invoke.