James Monroe Quotes

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• Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
• The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.
• Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.…
• While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe, the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we…
• Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
• How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and…
• Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
• It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation…
• The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.
• The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt…
• Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most…
• If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.
• From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the…
• I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.
• The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.
• A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.
• The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to…
• To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
• The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is…
• At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

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