Fisher Ames Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

9 Famous Quotes by Fisher Ames
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“I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.”
Politics Quotes
Source: Speech
“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”
Politics Quotes
Source: Speech
“Man is by nature a political animal.”
Politics Quotes
Source: Speech
“The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“[I]f these [new] books ... must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book?”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.”
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