Quote from Franklin Pierce 

"I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity, ...
[it] would be contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution
and subversive to the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded."

Quote by:
Franklin Pierce
(1804-1869) U.S. President
Source:
In 1854, when vetoing a bill to help the mentally ill
 
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