• We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.

    Fisher Ames: We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.
    Fisher Ames (1871). “Speeches of Fisher Ames in Congress, 1789-1796”, p.12