Franklin Pierce Quotes
- A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without…
- With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
- I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve…
- You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.
- The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective…
- There is nothing left to do but get drunk.
- While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can untie in a common objective and…
- It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.
- But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no place in the…
- I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.
- The founders of the Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self sacrificing Patriotism and as time has…
- Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
- The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.