Quotes About James Monroe

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

At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.

As a fellow member of Virginia's House of Burgesses, Washington had known Jefferson since 1768, and, at age nineteen, James Monroe had crossed the Delaware River with Washington on that already legendary Christmas night in 1776 for the battles that revived the patriot cause.

Nevertheless, some Southerners like James Monroe still had serious reservations about the compromise, believing that assumption would reduce "the necessity for State taxation" and thus would "undoubtedly leave the national government more at liberty to exercise its powers and increase the subjects on which it will act.