21 Millard Fillmore Quotes

Millard Fillmore quotes

1. An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

2. 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 can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world.

3. I have no language to express the emotions of my heart. The shock is so sudden and unexpected, I am overwhelmed.

4. I know nothing but my Country, my whole Country, and nothing but my Country.

5. It is a national disgrace that our Presidents, after having occupied the highest position in the country, should be cast adrift, and, perhaps, be compelled to keep a corner grocery for subsistence.

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

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

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

9. Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

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10. The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not fit for public trust.

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

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

3. God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

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

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

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

7. 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.

8. The nourishment is palatable.

9. Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.

10. The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.

11. The nourishment from barbecue is palatable.