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Fisher Ames has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation…
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Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority…
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The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.
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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…
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The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
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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…
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We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we…
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.
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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further…
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life…
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We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.
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People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.
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Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as…
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It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization…
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