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Fisher Ames Quotes

Type:
Statesman Quotes
Category:
American Statesman Quotes
Year of Birth:
1758
Year of Death:
1808
Nationality:
American
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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.
Fisher Ames

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.
Fisher Ames

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
Fisher Ames

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
Fisher Ames


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