"The man who can look upon a crisis……" — Millard Fillmore
"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."
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14 Quotes by Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore has 14 quotes on this site.
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Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our…
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I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would…
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It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
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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 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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God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give…
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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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More Altar Quotes
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one of 235 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
— Felix Adler
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Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to…
— Annie Besant
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For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar…
— Aeschylus
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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both…
— John Ruskin
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar. Please keep going, Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so…
— Kurt Cobain
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Are you making no progress in prayer? Then you need only offer God the prayers which the Savior has poured…
— Margaret Mary Alacoque
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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for…
— Winston Churchill
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