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By Martin Van Buren
...the less government interferes with private pursuits the better for the general prosperity.
- Source
- Special Session Message, September 4, 1837
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Van Buren's special session message to Congress on September 4, 1837, during the Panic of 1837. He says the framers of the Constitution judged it so.