Carolina QuotesBy this system of united and confederated States our people are permitted collectively and individually to seek their own happiness in their own way, and the consequences have been most auspicious.
James K. Polk
Carolinian
Source
Inaugural Address, Washington, 4 March 1845; Avalon Project, Yale Law School
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- Inaugural Address
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- 1845
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