James Monroe People Quotations

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.

The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort.

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.