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Top 15 Fisher Ames Quotes (2025 Update)

Fisher Ames Quote: “A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.”

1. “A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.”

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Fisher Ames Quote: “Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.”

2. “Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.”

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Fisher Ames Quote: “The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.”

3. “The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.”

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Fisher Ames Quote: “A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.”

4. “A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.”

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Fisher Ames Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

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Fisher Ames Quote: “I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.”

6. “I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.”

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Fisher Ames Quote: “I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.”

7. “I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.”

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Fisher Ames Quote: “Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.”

8. “Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.”

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Fisher Ames Quote: “America is rising with a giant’s strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.”

9. “America is rising with a giant’s strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.”

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

10. “The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.”

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Fisher Ames Quote: “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.”

11. “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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Fisher Ames Quote: “No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.”

12. “No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.”

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Fisher Ames Quote: “We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.”

13. “We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.”

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Fisher Ames Quote: “The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.”

14. “The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.”

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Fisher Ames Quote: “That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.”

15. “That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.”

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Fisher Ames Quote: “A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They deride the apprehensions of those who foresee, that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty.”

16. “A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They deride the apprehensions of those who foresee, that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty.”

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Fisher Ames Quote: “All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent.”

17. “All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent.”

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Fisher Ames Quote: “Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.”

18. “Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.”

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

19. “The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.”

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