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Most Quotes by James Monroe
- The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.
- 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!
- 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…
- I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.
- 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…
- The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness...beyond the Atlantic. In the wars of the European…
- The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
- The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack…
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