"America is rising with a giant's strength. Its……" — Fisher Ames

"America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages."

— Fisher Ames

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29 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…
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion,…
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…
The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and…
Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so…
We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative…
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…
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…
Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just… — Paul Auster
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And… — Billie Joe Armstrong
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear… — Desi Arnaz
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he… — Bashar al-Assad
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and… — Bashar al-Assad
There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful… — Chinua Achebe
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon

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