Millard Fillmore actually said...

"Legislation should never encourage dishonesty or crime."

"It is, nevertheless, a subject of national congratulation that the choice has been effected by the independent suffrages of a free people."

"A willingness to meet us in some arrangement of this kind is understood to exist on the part of Great Britain, with a desire on her part to include in one comprehensive settlement as well this subject..."

"Our unfortunate countrymen who from time to time suffer shipwreck on the coasts of the eastern seas are entitled to protection."