Quotes About Franklin Pierce

#1. Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account!

Jane Pierce

#2. There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Franklin Pierce Adams

#3. 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.

Franklin Pierce

#4. You do not know what you can miss before you try.

Franklin Pierce Adams

#5. All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.

Muhammad Ali

#6. Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

Patricia Heaton

#7. We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

Franklin Pierce Adams

#8. 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.

Franklin Pierce

#9. 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.

Franklin Pierce

#10. If people are paying money to see me, then I want them to walk away from the show knowing they had a really great time. I want it to be very energetic and to have fun, sad, emotional and uplifting moments. I want it to have everything!

Olly Murs

#11. Christmas is over and Business is Business.

Franklin Pierce Adams

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

Franklin Pierce

#13. 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.

Franklin Pierce

#14. Too much truth is uncouth.

Franklin Pierce Adams

#15. 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

Franklin Pierce

#16. 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.

Franklin Pierce

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

Franklin Pierce

#18. Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Franklin Pierce Adams

#19. There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

Theodor Adorno

#20. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

Franklin Pierce Adams

#21. 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.

Franklin Pierce

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

Franklin Pierce

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

Franklin Pierce

#24. 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.

Franklin Pierce

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

Franklin Pierce

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

Franklin Pierce

#27. There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.

Franklin Pierce Adams

#28. God must have said, "I know what I'll do, I'll send my Love right down there where they are. And I'll send it as a tiny baby, so they'll have to touch it, and they'll have to hold it close."

Gloria Gaither

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

Franklin Pierce

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

Franklin Pierce

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

Franklin Pierce

#32. Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Franklin Pierce Adams

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

Franklin Pierce

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

Franklin Pierce