"May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not."
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Presidents of the United StatesLawyers from New York (state)Vice Presidents of the United StatesPoliticians from New York (state)United States presidential candidates, 1856
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Letter to Henry Clay (11 November 1844), as quoted in Presidential Wit from Washington to Johnson (1966) edited by Bill Adler
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Millard Fillmore
1800 – 1874
US-amerikanischer Politiker
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