Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.
James MonroeIn wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do
James MonroeThe movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.
James MonroeTo impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.
James MonroeHow 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.
James Monroe