Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Piercewas the 14th President of the United States. Pierce was a northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation. His polarizing actions in championing and signing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act failed to stem intersectional conflict, setting the stage for Southern secession...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth23 November 1804
CityHillsborough, NH
CountryUnited States of America
I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.
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.
If your past is limited, your future is boundless.
While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can untie in a common objective and sustain common principles.
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.
There is nothing left to do but get drunk.
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.
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.
It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
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.