James Monroe
James Monroe
James Monroewas the fifth President of the United States, serving between 1817 and 1825. Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States and the last president from the Virginian dynasty and the Republican Generation. Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Monroe was of the planter class and fought in the American Revolutionary War. He was wounded in the Battle of Trenton with a musket ball to his shoulder. After studying law under Thomas Jefferson from...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth28 April 1758
CountryUnited States of America
If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
National honor is the national property of the highest value.
The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.
The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the faithful application of it to the purposes for which it is raised. The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made.
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 little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.
It is better to spread trust all around than to hand out money!
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.
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.
A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.
In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!