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Patrick Henry: 'I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.'

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Samuel Adams: 'I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.'

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Samuel Adams: 'Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.'

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Samuel Adams: 'We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.'

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Samuel Adams: 'The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.'

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Samuel Adams: 'It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.'

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James Monroe: 'Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.'

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James Monroe: 'To impose taxes when the public exigencies require them is an obligation of the most sacred character, especially with a free people.'

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James Monroe: 'I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.'

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James Monroe: 'The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation.'

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James Monroe: 'The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.'

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

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

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James Monroe: 'National honor is the national property of the highest value.'

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James Monroe: 'Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.'

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James Monroe: 'It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.'

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

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James Monroe: 'It was by one Union that we achieved our independence and liberties, and by it alone can they be maintained.'

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

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James Monroe: 'A king without power is an absurdity.'

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