Fisher Ames citations

Fisher Ames est un député du 1er congrès des États-Unis représentant le Massachusetts. Il était un dirigeant important du parti fédéraliste à la Chambre et se distinguait par son talent d'orateur. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. avril 1758 – 4. juillet 1808
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Fisher Ames: 12 citations0 J'aime

Fisher Ames: Citations en anglais

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

Fisher Ames

Speech on Biennial Elections before the Convention of Massachusetts (January 1788), reported in Seth Ames, John Thornton Kirkland, Works of Fisher Ames with a Selection from His Speeches and Correspondence (1854) p. 7.

“It was said by Fisher Ames that “falsehood proceeds from Maine to Georgia, while truth is pulling on his boots.””

Fisher Ames

Niles&#x27; Weekly Register (7 May 1831) 40:163 http://books.google.com/books?id=jhEbAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA163&amp;dq=%22falsehood+proceeds+from+Maine+to+Georgia%22 <br class="br">Attributed

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

Fisher Ames

Reported in Memoirs of Theophilus Parsons (1859). Ames is reported to have said this while opposing Parsons as counsel in a legal case.

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

Fisher Ames

Letter to George Richards Minot (June 12, 1789), reported in Fisher Ames, Seth Ames, John Thornton Kirkland, Works of Fisher Ames: With a Selection from His Speeches and Correspondence (1854), p. 54.

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

Fisher Ames

The Dangers of American Liberty (1805), in [Ames, Fisher, and Seth Ames, Works of Fisher Ames: with a selection from his speeches and correspondence, 1854, Little, Brown, 349, Boston, http://books.google.com/books?id=fjoOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA349&vq=known+propensity]

“But differ greatly in the sequel.”

Fisher Ames

--Fisher Ames, when confronted with the declaration that all men are created equal
Attributed

“Liberty has never yet lasted long in a democracy; nor has it ever ended in any thing better than despotism.”

Fisher Ames

American Literature (1805), in [Ames, Fisher, and Seth Ames, Works of Fisher Ames: with a selection from his speeches and correspondence, 1854, Little, Brown, 441, Boston, https://books.google.com/books?id=fjoOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA441#v=onepage]

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