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Fisher Ames Quotes
Page 1 of 1Fisher Ames
April 19, 1758 - July 4, 1808
Nationality: American
Category: Statesman
Subcategory: American Statesman
|  The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away. | | A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way. | | The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. | | No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. |
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