James Monroe Character Quotations

To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.

The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent.

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.