Millard Fillmore Quotes

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In less than ten years her Government was changed from a republic to an empire, and finally, after shedding rivers of blood, foreign powers restored her exiled dynasty and exhausted Europe sought peace and repose in the unquestioned ascendency of monarchical principles. Let us learn wisdom from her example. Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our Revolution. They existed before. They were planted in the free charters of self-government under which the English colonies grew up, and our Revolution only freed us from the dominion of a foreign power whose government was at variance with those institutions.

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, and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the constitution, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world.

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

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.

Millard Fillmore