Millard Fillmore quotes

1800–1874 · Summer Hill, NY

• I claim only to have discharged them to the best of an humble ability, with a single eye to the public good, and it is with devout gratitude in retiring from office that I leave the country in a state of peace and prosperity.

• It has been the uniform policy of this Government, from its foundation to the present day, to abstain from all interference in the domestic affairs of other nations.

• We live in an age of progress, and ours is emphatically a country of progress.

• It is not strange, however much it may be regretted, that such an exuberance of enterprise should cause some individuals to mistake change for progress and the invasion of the rights of others for national prowess and glory.

• Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.