Franklin Pierce Quotes





Aggression

"We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; 
we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations 
of peace and amity with all nations."
Franklin Pierce
Source:http://www.quotesforall.com/p/piercefranklin.htm


America

"The stars upon your banner have become nearly threefold their original 
number; your densely populated possessions skirt the shores of the two 
great oceans."
Franklin Pierce
Source:http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/franklinpierce/a/quotepierce.htm


Being President

"You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me by 
your strength."
Franklin Pierce
Source:http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/franklinpierce/a/quotepierce.htm


Constitution

"The storm of frency and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain 
against the unshaken rock of the Constitution."
Franklin Pierce
Source:http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/franklinpierce/a/quotepierce.htm




Danger

"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
(1804-1869) U.S. President
Source: Inaugural Address, 4 March 1853
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Franklin.Pierce.Quote.3062


Political Parties

"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
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/franklin_pierce/


Public Charity

"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
Source: May 3, 1854, President vetoed a bill 


Secession Crisis of 1860

"I wish I could indulge higher hope for the future of our country, 
but the aspect of any vision is fearfully dark and I cannot make it 
otherwise."
Franklin Pierce During the secession crisis of 1860 
Source:http://www.jeannepasero.com/fp14.html


Time and Money

Remember that time is money. 
Franklin Pierce
Source:http://www.quotesforall.com/p/piercefranklin.htm


Trifling Subjects

"Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and 
protracted the discussion."
Franklin Pierce
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/franklin_pierce/




Union

"With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined."
Franklin Pierce
Source:http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/franklin_pierce/

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