« All Admirer Quotes
·
Fisher Ames's Page
Admirer Quotes by Fisher Ames
1 Admirer quote by Fisher Ames
More Quotes by Fisher Ames
Fisher Ames has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation…
-
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority…
-
The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.
-
[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating…
-
The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
-
Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in…
-
We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we…
-
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.
-
I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about…
-
I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
-
Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks…
-
Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
See all 29 quotes by Fisher Ames »
More Admirer Quotes
Popular Admirer quotes from across the collection:
-
When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work…
— Boris Becker
-
I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to…
— Nicolas Cage
-
I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did…
— Michael Caine
-
I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade class I…
— Steve Carell
-
I'd rather have two good friends, than 500,000 admirers.
— E E Cummings
-
Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
-
Haters are just confused admirers.
— Justin Bieber
-
Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!
— Constantin Stanislavski
-
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say…
— Angus Wilson
-
Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and…
— Benjamin Moser
-
I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
-
Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly…
— Flannery O'Connor
See all Admirer Quotes »
Browse Fisher Ames Quotes by Category