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Franklin Pierce Quotes

Total quotes: 20
“The sentiments I now announce were not unknown before the expression of the voice which called me here.”
— Franklin Pierce, Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce
Tagged: sentiments, expression, announce, Emotion, Feelings, Opinion, Mindset, convey, Communicate
“The rights which belong to us as a nation are not alone to be regarded, but those which pertain to every citizen in this individual capacity, at home and abroad, must be sacredly maintained.”
— Franklin Pierce, Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce
Tagged: rights, belong, nation, citizen, Individual, Home, abroad, sacred
“Do my countrymen need any assurance that such a catastrophe is not to overtake them while I possess the power to stay it?”
— Franklin Pierce, Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce
Tagged: countrymen, Assurance, catastrophe, Possess, Power, ability, Convince, People, disaster, danger, Warning, prevent
“The field of calm and free discussion in our country is open, and will always be so, but never has been and never can be traversed for good in a spirit of sectionalism and uncharitabilities.”
— Franklin Pierce, Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce
Tagged: calm, free discussion, frreedom, country, Open, sectionalism, uncaritable, charity, Opinion, Mind, Mindset, civilization, People, Society
“But let not the foundation of our hope rest upon man's wisdom.”
— Franklin Pierce, Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce
Tagged: foundation, Hope, Wisdom, Man, rely, Reliance, Person, wise, base, Future
“What becomes of the noblest field ever opened for the advancement of our race in religion, in government, in the arts, and in all that dignifies and adorns mankind?”
— Franklin Pierce, Messages and Papers of the Presidents: James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, and Franklin Pierce
Tagged: noble, Field, Advancement, Race, Religion, Government, Arts, Mankind, dignify, dignity, Knowledge, Learning, improve, civilization, Sophistication
“It is not your privilege as a nation to speak of a distant past.”
— Franklin Pierce, Triumphant Mourner: The Tragic Dimension of Franklin Pierce
Tagged: Privilege, nation, Speak, Past, Words, History
“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, The Rhetoric of American Exceptionalism: Critical Essays
Tagged: History, Position, invade, invasion, Aggression, civilization, Culture, Relations, Peace, Communication, Society, People, nation
“The stars upon your banner have become nearly threefold their original number; your densely populated possessions skirt the shores of the two great oceans; and yet this vast increase of people and territory has not only shown itself compatible with the harmonious action of the States and Federal Government in their respective constitutional spheres, but has afforded an additional guaranty of the strength and integrity of both.”
— Franklin Pierce, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 7
Tagged: Stars, banner, Flag, Number, Population, country, People, Possessions, Posses, populated, Government, Federal Government, Territory
“But after all, the most animating encouragement and potent appeal for freedom will be its own history - its trials and its triumphs.”
— Franklin Pierce, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 7
Tagged: animating, Encouragement, Appeal, Freedom, Triumph, Trials, Difficulty, Challenge, Success
“In this our country has, in my judgment, thus far fulfilled its highest duty to suffering humanity. It has spoken and will continue to speak, not only by words, but by its acts, the language of sympathy, encouragement, and hope to those who earnestly listen to tones which pronounce for the largest national liberty.”
— Franklin Pierce, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 7
Tagged: Judgment, fulfilled, Suffering, Duty, humanity, Words, acts, Action, sympathy, Encouragement, Language, Communication, Liberty, Freedom
“It is no paradox to say that although comparatively weak the new-born nation was intrinsically strong.”
— Franklin Pierce, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 7
Tagged: Paradox, Absurd, Contradiction, contradictory, nation, Strong, strength, Society
“My Countrymen: It is a relief to feel that no heart but my own can know the personal regretan bitter sorrow over which I have been borne to a position so suitable for others rather than desirable for myself.”
— Franklin Pierce, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 7
Tagged: countrymen, country, People, Society, Government, Sorrow, difficult, Responsibility, govern, leader, rule
“I rely confidently on the patriotism of the people, on the dignity and self-respect of the States, on the wisdom of Congreess, and, above all, on the continued gracious favor of Almighty God to maintain against all enemies, whether at home or abroad, the sanctity of the Constitution and the integrity of the Union.”
— Franklin Pierce, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 7
Tagged: rely, Confidence, confident'patriotism, Patriot, country, Loyalty, state, Congress, Government, Constitution, Trust, Faith, Belief, God, People
“And are patriotic men of any part of the Union prepared on such issue thus madly to invite all the consequences of the forfeiture of their constitutional agreements? It is impossible.”
— Franklin Pierce, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 7
Tagged: Patriot, Men, Soldier, Military, Union, Society, Consequence, Action, Constitution
“Nor is it hostility against their fellow-citizens of one section if the Union alone. The interersts, the honor, the duty, the peace, and the prosperity of the people of all sections are equally involved and imperiled in this question.”
— Franklin Pierce, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 7
Tagged: Politics, Hostility, miloitary, People, Government, Society
“I know that the Union is stronger a thousand times than all the wild and chimerical schemes of social change which are generated one after another in the unstable minds of visionary sophists and interested agitators.”
— Franklin Pierce, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 7
Tagged: Union, Strong, strength, Social Change, Society, People, Community, schemes, plan
“There's nothing left but to get drunk”
— Franklin Pierce, White House Special Handbook: How to Rule the World in the 21st Century
Tagged: Nothing, do, Action, Drink, Alcohol, Drunk, Intoxicated
“The storm of frenzy and faction must inevitably dash itself in vain against the unshaken rock of the Constitution. I shall never doubt it.”
— Franklin Pierce, White House Special Handbook: How to Rule the World in the 21st Century
Tagged: craze, frenzy, Excitement, faction, Group, Vain, strength, Constitution, rights, Law, rule
“You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me by your strength.”
— Franklin Pierce, In the Memory House
Tagged: summon, Weakness, strength, govern, leader, Politics, People
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