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Quotes: Pierce, Franklin


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I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity. [To approve the measure] would be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.
Franklin Pierce
-- President Franklin Pierce's 1854 veto of a measure to help the mentally ill.

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