The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent.
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 Monroe