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Government Quotes by Fisher Ames
- The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.
- The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.
- [the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.
- 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 not…
- [O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from…
- A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.
- All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is…
- The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
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