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> [Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fisher-ames/our-liberty-depends-on-our-education-our-laws-and-habits-it-is/)

[Fisher Ames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fisher-ames/)

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## More by Fisher Ames

> [A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fisher-ames/a-government-by-the-passions-of-the-multitude-or-no-less-correctly/)

[Fisher Ames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fisher-ames/)

> [I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about the people.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fisher-ames/i-am-commonly-opposed-to-those-who-modestly-assume-the-rank-of/)

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> [The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated to them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fisher-ames/the-people-as-a-body-cannot-deliberate-nevertheless-they-will-feel-an/)

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> [Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fisher-ames/liberty-is-not-to-be-enjoyed-indeed-it-cannot-exist-without-the/)

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> [Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fisher-ames/our-liberty-depends-on-our-education-our-laws-and-habits-it-is/)

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> [Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fisher-ames/democracy-in-its-best-state-is-but-the-politics-of-bedlam-while-kept/)

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> [Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fisher-ames/why-then-if-these-new-books-for-children-must-be-retained-as-they/)

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> [No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fisher-ames/no-man-can-be-a-sound-lawyer-in-this-land-who-is-not-well-read-in-the/)

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> [ \[Why\] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fisher-ames/why-should-not-the-bible-regain-the-place-it-once-held-as-a-school/)

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> [I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fisher-ames/i-have-heard-it-remarked-that-men-are-not-to-be-reasoned-out-of-an/)

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> [I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fisher-ames/i-consider-biennial-elections-as-a-security-that-the-sober-second/)

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> [Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fisher-ames/time-never-fails-to-bring-every-exalted-reputation-to-a-strict/)

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> [A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fisher-ames/a-large-portion-of-our-citizens-who-will-not-believe-even-on-the/)

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> [The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to improve, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fisher-ames/the-house-is-composed-of-very-good-men-not-shining-but-honest-and/)

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> [Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble…In no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fisher-ames/should-not-the-bible-regain-the-place-it-once-held-as-a-schoolbook/)

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