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National honor is the national property of the highest value.
More from James Monroe
- 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 ca…
- The American continents ... are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
- In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so t…
- We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should…
- A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
- If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.
- If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosper…
- In this great nation there is but one order, that of the people, whose power, by a peculiarly happy improvement of the representative princ…