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By Martin Van Buren
Party exasperation has been often carried to its highest point; the virtue and fortitude of the people have sometimes been greatly tried; yet our system, purified and enhanced in value by all it has encountered, still preserves its spirit of free and fearless discussion, blended with unimpaired fraternal feeling.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, March 4, 1837
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- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Van Buren's inaugural address on March 4, 1837, on how the country has held together through bitter party fights.