Quotes by Millard Fillmore

“May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.”

“It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress.”

“Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.”

“The nourishment is palatable.”

An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

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.

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.