Millard Fillmore Quotes
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.
Fillmore, Millard. "Third Annual Message." 6 Dec. 1852. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897, edited by James D. Richardson, vol. 5, Government Printing Office, 1897, p. 181.
Khrushchev did not originate this quotation. It was first stated by Lenin. See {620087}.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
The Lloyd George government was using the military to cross the picket line of a national miners’ strike.
Harding, not the most historically knowledgeable of American Presidents, had forgotten the revolutionary origin of the United States or its drastically experimental nature. It was the fear of Communism and the Russian Revolution that gave revolution a bad name at the time.
Majority public opinion does not always prevail in a modern democracy as there are Constitutional limits on the prerogatives of the majority. Also leadership has played a strong role in America’s development where strong leaders have been able to do the right thing despite contrary public opinion.
The French Revolution with the rise of Napoleon was a classic example. The American Revolution was an exception.
Millard Fillmore was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House. A former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Upstate New York, Fillmore was elected as the 12th U.S. Vice President in 1848, and succeeded to the presidency in July 1850 upon the death of U.S. President Zachary Taylor. Fillmore was instrumental in the passing of the Compromise of 1850, a bargain that led to a brief truce in the battle over the expansion of slavery. He failed to win the Whig nomination for president in 1852 but gained the endorsement of the nativist Know Nothing Party four years later and finished third in the 1856 presidential election.
