Quotes About Millard Fillmore

#1. Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different.

Barack Obama

#2. I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.

Utah Phillips

#3. Go within and release yesterday's sorrow so you may embrace today's joy.

Liz Hester

#4. Death makes its own choices.
Has reasoning an order has a taste ...

Angelo Tsanatelis

#5. Oh, do not scowl at me, reader, I do not intend to convey the impression that I did not manage to be happy.

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Millard Fillmore

#7. It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress.

Millard Fillmore

#8. 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.

Millard Fillmore

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

Millard Fillmore

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

Millard Fillmore

#11. French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

Cameron Diaz

#12. 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

#13. 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.

Millard Fillmore

#14. Nuclear weapons elimination will make all states and their people safer. It is time to assert our right to live in a nuclear weapons free world.

Jonathan Granoff

#15. Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.

Bear Bryant

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

Millard Fillmore

#17. The nourishment is palatable.

Millard Fillmore

#18. Thank God! Those prayers were answered!

Jeannie Walker

#19. When giants fought, ants were crushed.

Rachel Caine

#20. 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.

Millard Fillmore

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

Millard Fillmore

#22. The nourishment from barbecue is palatable.

Millard Fillmore

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

Millard Fillmore

#24. An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

Millard Fillmore

#25. For friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#26. I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.

Hamid Karzai

#27. The words were a paraphrase of the suggestion of Jesus: "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's."
Bokonon's paraphrase was this:
"Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Millard Fillmore