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I Only Look To The Gracious Protection Of The Divine Being Whose Strengthening Support I Humbly Solicit, And Whom I Fervently Pray To Look Down Upon Us All. May It Be Among The Dispensations Of His Providence To Bless Our Beloved Country With Honors And With Length Of Days; May Her Ways Beways Of Pleasantness, And All Her Paths Be Peace.
-Martin Van Buren
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I Only Look To The Gracious Protection

Martin Van Buren
I Only Look To The Gracious Protection Of The Divine Being Whose Strengthening Support I Humbly Solicit, And Whom I Fervently Pray To Look Down Upon Us All. May It Be Among The Dispensations Of His Providence To Bless Our Beloved Country With Honors And With Length Of Days; May Her Ways Beways Of Pleasantness, And All Her Paths Be Peace.
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