Quotes About Millard

By almost universal agreement, the most vague and ineffectual of all [Presidents] was Millard Fillmore, who succeeded to the office in 1850 upon the death of Zachary Taylor, and spent the next three years demonstrating how the country would have been run if they had just propped Taylor up in a chair with cushions.

God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

convex side of the train," he wrote, "when both the

overhead with an eye on the horrid banquet." In the silence, with the full brunt of

As Bliss declared victory, Bell struggled with a nagging sense of unease.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike. JAMES A. GARFIELD

Theology is needful because of the large number of alternatives and challenges abroad at the present