Best James Monroe Quotes

#1. As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce.

Clive James

#2. While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe, the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to them whose minds have not yielded to the evidence which has convinced us.

James Monroe

#3. There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us.

James Monroe

#4. The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is capable.

James Monroe

#5. In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

James Monroe

#6. I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

James Monroe

#7. Because you see me. And I desperately need someone who will see the man behind my title.

Erica Monroe

#8. I remember the day I discovered James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. I don't know why it affected me so strongly, but I walked down to the corner store and bought every poster of them, and I did my whole room up. Overnight.

Gwen Stefani

#9. Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

James Monroe

#10. This is not the way this is supposed to work, you know. Once these stays come off, they're supposed to bloody remain off for at least a half hour, do you understand me? We should make this a rule from now on.

Erica Monroe

#11. From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.

James Monroe

#12. Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

James Monroe

#13. The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.

James Monroe

#14. The American continents, by the free and independent condition by which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.

James Monroe

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

James Monroe

#16. During the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress and George Washington - I call him the first George W. - (laughter and applause) - urged citizens to pray and to give thanks and to ask for God's protection.

James Monroe

#17. If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

James Monroe

#18. Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.

James Monroe

#19. If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.

Carlos Fuentes

#20. For thirty-six of the forty years between 1800 and 1840, either Jefferson or a self-described adherent of his served as president of the United States: James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren.32 (John Quincy Adams, a one-term president, was the single exception.)

Jon Meacham

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

James Monroe

#22. The movements of a great nation are connected in all their parts. If errors have been committed they ought to be corrected; if the policy is sound it ought to be supported.

James Monroe

#23. It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

James Monroe

#24. In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do

James Monroe

#25. By these purchases the Indian title, with moderate reservations, has been extinguished to the whole of the land within the limits of the State of Ohio, and to a part of that in the Michigan Territory and of the State of Indiana.

James Monroe

#26. A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

James Monroe

#27. I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got all the names and addresses out of the yearbook. It came off very well.

Sid Bernstein

#28. I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him.

James Monroe

#29. The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.

James Monroe

#30. The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

James Monroe

#31. The right of self defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals, and whether the attack be made by Spain herself or by those who abuse her power, its obligation is not the less strong.

James Monroe

#32. If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

James Monroe

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

James Monroe

#34. History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

James Monroe

#35. I enter on the trust to which I have been called by the suffrage of my fellow-citizens with my fervent prayers to the Almighty that He will be graciously pleased to continue to us that protect which He has already so conspicuously displayed in our favor.

James Monroe

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

James Monroe

#37. Let us by wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

James Monroe

#38. She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

Clive James

#39. A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

James Monroe

#40. I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.

John Travolta

#41. The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

James Monroe

#42. The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort.

James Monroe