Quote #12
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all -- liberty!
More from James Monroe
- Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.
- Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
- It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their s…
- The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
- In this great nation there is but one order, that of the people, whose power, by a peculiarly happy improvement of the representative princ…
- 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…
- If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.
- A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.