"A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know……" — James Monroe
"A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends."
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James Monroe
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41 Quotes by James Monroe
James Monroe has 41 quotes on this site.
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Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
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The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.
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Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of…
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While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe, the Religion which we believe to…
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Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
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How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been…
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Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of…
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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable…
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The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.
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The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will…
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Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes…
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If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
— Richard Armour
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the…
— Antonin Artaud
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I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
— Rowan Atkinson
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
— Saint Augustine
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the…
— Irving Babbitt
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not…
— Edward Bach
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During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So…
— Michelle Bachelet
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