James K Polk Quotations

• Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.
• I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.
• 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.
• Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
• No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
•   was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

                                                                                                James K Polk Quotations