If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest … - Martin Van Buren

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Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. . . . Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

Martin Van Buren

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

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I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men. . . in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

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