"I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if……" — 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 opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled."
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Millard Fillmore
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14 Quotes by Millard Fillmore
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God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we…
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The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country…
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The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.
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The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.
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Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.
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Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
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Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to…
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It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
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May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.
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