Fisher Ames
Fisher Ames
Fisher Ameswas a Representative in the United States Congress from the 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts. He was an important leader of the Federalists in the House, and was noted for his oratorical skill...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth19 April 1758
CountryUnited States of America
language purity admirer
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.
christian religious children
Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?
fanaticism
That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.
reputation failing scrutiny
Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.
fire historical democracy
Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.
long historical liberty
Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.
taken eggs mind
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
america giants rising
America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.
law people political
I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
country government essence
[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often... oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country.
heart soul liberty
We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.
stupid believe patriotic
The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to improve, and not much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.
ambition passion government
A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.
strong patriotic successful
I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about the people. It is the stale artifice which has duped the world a thousand times, and yet, though detected, it is still successful. I love liberty as well as anybody. I am proud of it, as the true title of our people to distinction above others; but . . . I would guard it by making the laws strong enough to protect it.