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

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

Fisher Ames quotes: I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

Fisher Ames quotes: That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.

That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.

Fisher Ames quotes: I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

Fisher Ames quotes: The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

Fisher Ames quotes: America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.

America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.

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

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

Fisher Ames 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.

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 quotes: Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

Fisher Ames quotes: The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

Fisher Ames 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.

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 quotes: A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

Fisher Ames quotes: No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.

No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.