Fisher Ames

Fisher Ames (1758-1808) was a U.S. House representative, a Federalist, serving from 1789 to 1797. He was a renowned orator who opposed slavery and supported a strong central government under a republican structure.

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

On Biennial Elections, 1788

Liberty has never yet lasted long in a democracy; nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

American Literature

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

The Dangers of American Liberty

[A republic] differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

Mires of Democracy

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.

Ian Fleming

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

Mignon McLaughlin

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Calvin Coolidge

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Will Rogers

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca the Younger

There are only two kinds of people who go into bankruptcy—those who don’t know how to handle money and those who know all too well.

Thomas Sowell

All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.

George Orwell

I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.

Donald Trump

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

True politeness is a polish, not a varnish; and should rather be acquired by observation than admonition.

Mary Wollstonecraft

If the burden of proof is always on the one who believes any idea, then that principle should also apply to the belief in the idea of skepticism.

Peter Kreeft

When you ain’t nothing else, you are an artist. It’s the one thing you can claim to be and nobody can prove you ain’t.

Will Rogers

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death.

Catholic Church

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Thomas Jefferson

Throughout the history of anti-trust prosecutions, there has been an unresolved confusion between what is detrimental to competition and what is detrimental to competitors.

Thomas Sowell

The future will be better tomorrow.

Dan Quayle

I doubt whether man can ever support at the same time complete religious independence and entire public freedom. And I am inclined to think, that if faith be wanting in him, he must serve; and if he be free, he must believe.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The word ‘no’ is a complete sentence.

Unknown

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Holy Bible

Civilization is the result of a long social process which takes place in the same spot, and is handed down from one generation to another, each one profiting by the experience of the last.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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