Fisher Ames Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Fisher Ames Quotes and Sayings
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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.
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- 2
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.
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- 3
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
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