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What are quotes about franklin pierce from other people in history?

not him other history people in his time plz help i need an answer quickly.

Got this from my personal favorite President book “The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents” by William DeGregorio:

All these refer to President Franklin Pierce:

“It is his peculiar disctintion, above all other public men within my knowledge, that he has never had occasion to take a single step backwards. What speech, vote, or sentiment of his whole political career has been inconsistent with the purest, and strictest principles of Jeffersonian Democracy?…Our candidate, throughout his life, has proved himself to be peculiarly unselfish. The offices and honors which other men seek with so much eagerness, have sought him only to be refused…Indeed, the publich character of General Pierce is so invulnerable that is has scarcely been seriously assaulted.” – James Buchanan, 1852, taken from George Ticknor Curtis’ “Life of James Buchanan” [1883]

“He has in him many of the chief elements of a great ruler. His talents are administrative, he has a subtle faculty of making affairs roll onward according to his will, and of influencing their course without showing any trace of his action. There are scores of men in the country that seem brighter than he is, but [he] has the directing mind, and will move them about like pawns on a chess-board, and turn all their abilities to better purpose than they themselves could do.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1852, taken from Roy Franklin Nichols’ “Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills” [1931]

“He has got round him so many whigs that democrats are crowded out of an organisation [sic] pretending to the democratic name…This bastard race…controls the organisation [sic], the unproductive hybrid [was] begot by southern arrogance upon northern subserviencey [sic]” – George Bancroft, 1856, taken from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.’s “The Age of Jackson” [1946]

“A vain, showy, and pliant man…[who] by his errors and weakness broke down his administration, and his party throughout the country.” – Gideon Wells, 1868, taken from Roy Franklin Nichols’ “Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills” [1931]

“[Pierce was] a small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler. He was ready to do any work the slavery leaders set him.” – Theodore Roosevelt, taken from Richard Kenin and Justin Wintle’s “Dictionary of Biographical Quotations” [1978]

“Pierce was the best looking President the White House ever had- but as President he ranks with Buchanan and Calvin Coolidge.” – President Harry S Truman, 1952, taken from Robert H. Ferrell’s “Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman” [1980]

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