Constitution Quote by Millard Fillmore

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.

— Millard Fillmore

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

— Millard Fillmore

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till…

— Millard Fillmore

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

— Millard Fillmore

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

— Millard Fillmore

The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.

— Millard Fillmore

The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.

— Millard Fillmore

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

— Millard Fillmore

“An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.”

— Millard Fillmore

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

— Millard Fillmore

I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political…

— Millard Fillmore

The nourishment is palatable.

— Millard Fillmore