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Fisher Ames Quotes
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Type: Statesman Quotes Category: American Statesman Quotes Year of Birth: 1758 Year of Death: 1808 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Fisher Ames Related Authors: Daniel Webster Colin Powell Warren Christopher Condoleezza Rice Henry L. Stimson William H. Seward George Mason Morning Star |
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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