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Millard Fillmore Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.”
— Millard Fillmore
Tagged: God, nation
“The Masonic fraternity tramples upon our rights, defeats the administration of justice, and bids defiance to every government which it cannot control.”
— Millard Fillmore, In the Coils; Or, The Coming Conflict
Tagged: Freemasonry, Justice, Government
“The whole country is full of enterprise. Our common schools are diffusing intelligence among the people and our industry is fast accumulating the comforts and luxuries of life.”
— Millard Fillmore
Tagged: enterprise, Intelligence
“We cannot witness the struggle between the oppressed and his oppressor anywhere without the deepest sympathy for the former and the most anxious desire for his triumph.”
— Millard Fillmore
Tagged: Oppression, Triumph, sympathy
“Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.”
— Millard Fillmore, Great Quotations on Religious Freedom
Tagged: Church and State, Religion, Politics
“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
Tagged: Revolution, Freedom
“It is not strange…to mistake change for progress and the invasion of the rights of others for national prowess and glory.”
— Millard Fillmore
Tagged: Change, Progress
“An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.”
— Millard Fillmore
Tagged: Defeat, victory, Honor
“England at present wields the destinies of the commercial world, and her power is concentrated in London; but if this country can maintain its union, there are those now within the hearing of my voice who will live to see New York what London is now.”
— Millard Fillmore, Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society
Tagged: England, New York, Commerce
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