Franklin Pierce

If the Federal Government will confine itself to the exercise of powers clearly granted by the Constitution, it can hardly happen that its action upon any question should endanger the institutions of the States or interfere with their right to manage matters strictly domestic according to the will of their own people.

Franklin Pierce

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.

Franklin Pierce

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

Franklin Pierce

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.