If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.
James MonroeThe emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.
James MonroeThe best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
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