It Is Evident

May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.

-- Millard Fillmore (1800 - 1874), thirteenth president of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the last member of the Whig Party to hold the nation's highest office, Letter to Henry Clay (11 November 1844), as quoted in Presidential Wit from Washington to Johnson (1966) edited by Bill Adler