Franklin Pierce Quotes

#1. I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

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#2. You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

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#3. It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

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#4. Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

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#5. After the White House what is there to do but drink?

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#6. There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

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#7. If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

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#8. In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.

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#9. With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

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#10. I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world.

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#11. A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

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#12. The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

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#13. While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can untie in a common objective and sustain common principles.

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#14. In expressing briefly my views upon an important subject which has recently agitated the nation ... , I fervently hope that the question is at rest and that no sectional or ambitious or fanatical excitement may again threaten the durability of our institutions.

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#15. There's nothing left ... but to get drunk.

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#16. The revenue of the country, levied almost insensibly to the taxpayer, goes on from year to year, increasing beyond either the interests or the prospective wants of the Government.

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#17. The founders of the Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self sacrificing Patriotism and as time has proved, with a comprehensive wisdom which it will always be safe for us to consult

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#18. I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.

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#19. I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

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