"It would be judicious to act with magnanimity……" — Millard Fillmore

"It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe."

— Millard Fillmore

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14 Quotes by Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our…
I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would…
God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we…
The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country…
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…
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…
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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