Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Millard Fillmore Quotes Click here for Millard Fillmore books Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President (Signature Series) "An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory." "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." "I know nothing but my Country, my whole Country, and nothing but my Country." "It is a national disgrace that our Presidents, after having occupied the highest position in the country, should be cast adrift, and, perhaps, be compelled to keep a corner grocery for subsistence." "Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our Revolution. They existed before." "Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness." "May God save the country, for it is evident that the
people will not."
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