Franklin Pierce Quotes

• If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

  Franklin Pierce

  Past, Your Future, Boundless

  Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

  Franklin Pierce

  Drunk, Presidential, Left

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

  Franklin Pierce

  Men, Presidential, Principles

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

  Franklin Pierce

  Teaching, Weakness, Politics

  Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• 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

  God, Religious, Humble

  Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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

  Franklin Pierce

  War, Heartless, Way

  Letter to Jane Pierce, March 3, 1863.

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• Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

  Franklin Pierce

  Patriotic, Presidential, Political

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• 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

  Country, Children, Father

  George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.110, e-artnow sro

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

  Franklin Pierce

  Charity, Constitution, Authority

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• After the White House what is there to do but drink?

  Franklin Pierce

  White, House, Drink

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• Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.

  Franklin Pierce

  Religious, Knaves, Worst

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• But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom. It will not be sufficient that sectional prejudices find no place in the public deliberations. It will not be sufficient that the rash counsels of human passion are rejected. 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

  Passion, Humble, Men

  Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• 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

  Talking, Body, Lawyer

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• 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

  Government, President, Danger

  Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• 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

  Sacrifice, Self, Republic

  Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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

  Franklin Pierce

  Patriotic, Political, Unions

  Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing for the care and support of all those ... who by any form of calamity become fit objects of public philanthropy. ... I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.

  Franklin Pierce

  Power, Government, Support

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• There's nothing left . . . but to get drunk.

  Franklin Pierce

  Drunk, Left

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• 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

  Party, Patriotic, Government

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• 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

  Country, Government, Years

  Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• 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

  Distance, Views, Political

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• 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

  Views, History, Important

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• I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic.

  Franklin Pierce

  War, Blood, Devastation

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• READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all . . . to provide for those who, in the mysterious order of Providence, are subject to want and to disease of body or mind; but I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States . . . .

  Franklin Pierce

  Government, Order, Mind

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