Quotes by James Monroe

James Monroe

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.

Decision

Government

People

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

Causes

People

Principles

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

Inspiring

Men

Teaching

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

Country

Political

Progress

Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe. And to the same Divine Author of every good and perfect gift we are indebted for all those privileges and advantages, religious as well as civil, which are so richly enjoyed in this favored land.

Godly

Men

Religious

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men – infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

May

Men

War

During the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress and George Washington – I call him the first George W. – (laughter and applause) – urged citizens to pray and to give thanks and to ask for God’s protection.

Giving

Laughter

War

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.

Country

Lakes

Land

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

Century

Half

War

How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism.

Country

Fate

Rights

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Advantage

America

Army

Believe

Blood

Causes

Century

Character

Children

Christian

Citizens

Colonization

Country

Decision

Doe

Errors

Essentials

Europe

Evil

Example

Exercise

Faithful

Fate

Favors

Feelings

Fighting

Friendly

Giving

Godly

Government

Growth

Gun

Half

Hands

House

Ignorant

Ill Will

Importance

Important

Improvement

Independent

Inspiring

Lakes

Land

Lasts

Laughter

Liberty

Life

Long

Made

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Quotes by James Monroe

James Monroe

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men – infantry, artillery, and cavalry.

During the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress and George Washington – I call him the first George W. – (laughter and applause) – urged citizens to pray and to give thanks and to ask for God’s protection.

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.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

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