“It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.”
Other Martin Van Buren Quotes
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.
Martin Van Buren 
91% of people like this quote
The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.
Martin Van Buren
63% of people like this quote
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
Martin Van Buren
62% of people like this quote