Fisher Ames Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Fisher Ames:

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
~Fisher Ames


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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.
~Fisher Ames


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/fisher-ames-quotes/#9b042e82

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.
~Fisher Ames


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/fisher-ames-quotes/#afc817df

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
~Fisher Ames


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/fisher-ames-quotes/#444f41ad

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