READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all. . . to provide for those … - Franklin Pierce

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We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies-all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

Franklin Pierce

READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all. . . to provide for those who, in the mysterious order of Providence, are subject to want and to disease of body or mind; but I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. . . .

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