James Monroe Government Quotations

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.

Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms.... If these rights are well defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny.

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.