Millard Fillmore Quotes

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• Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.
• I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition.…
• It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
• God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we…
• The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.
• The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.
• The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.
• God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is…
• Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.
• Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
• Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
• It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
• May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.
• Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

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