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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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Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable.
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No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have…
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the…
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People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us…
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Peace is something more than the absence of war, although some nations would be thankful for that alone today. A durable and…
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