James Monroe Country Quotations

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

He loved Kentucky, ... He thought this was the prettiest country in the world.

The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.

How 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.