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

- Franklin Pierce

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

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