A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
– Franklin Pierce
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
– Franklin Pierce
With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
– 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.