Millard Fillmore famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
-- Millard Fillmore

#Change #Mistake #Presidential
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
-- Millard Fillmore

#Revolution #Remember
May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.
-- Millard Fillmore

#Country #People #Political
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

#Views #Political #Religion
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore

#Last Words #Nourishment
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

#Government #Evil #Presidential
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

#Country #Men #Presidential
It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
-- Millard Fillmore

#Inspirational Life #Would Be #Foe
The law is the only sure protection of the weak, and the only efficient restraint upon the strong.
-- Millard Fillmore

#Strong #Law #Protection
God knows that 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

#Giving #Evil #Slavery
Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.
-- Millard Fillmore

#Church #Facts #Form
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

#Liberty #Revolution #Remember
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
-- Millard Fillmore

#Independent #Rights #Owing
The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.
-- Millard Fillmore

#War #Independent #Presidential

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