James Monroe Quotes
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The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.
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The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.
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History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.
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I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him.
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Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
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The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort.
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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 prosperous and happy.
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Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
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At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
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The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.
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From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.
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The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness...beyond the Atlantic. 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 to do so. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries.
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The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.
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There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.
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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 crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent.
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To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
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The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.
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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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I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.
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[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.
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Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms.... If these rights are well defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny.
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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and a usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
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A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.
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It is better to spread trust all around than to hand out money!
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A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
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We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.
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Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.
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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.
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National honor is national property of the highest value.
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