The best Quotes by James Monroe

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

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.

National honor is the national property of the highest value.

A king without power is an absurdity.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

This is America. Anyone can eat what they want, as long as they eat too much.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

...yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all.

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

Crowns do queer things to the heads beneath them.

You might be a king or a little street sweeper, but sooner or later you dance with the reaper.

A wise king never seeks out war, but he must always be ready for it.

The Royal Family's wealth, unline their gene pool, is massive.

How romantic it must be to get imprisoned in a castle and made to squeeze out heirs.

The bluer the blood, the sweeter it spills.

It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.

You know, not only am I campaigning, but I'm running the world.

While Walz pretends to support Americans in the Heartland, when the cameras are off, he believes that rural America is "mostly cows and rocks". Walz is obsessed with spreading California's dangerously liberal agenda far and wide.

I am for electric cars. I have to be, because Elon endorsed me very strongly. So, I have no choice.

For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

When you fall, the real test is whether you can ignore the naysayers, pick yourself up and come back stronger.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for America. I, unfortunately, will be going back to Washington after my remarks. Today we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country.

The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia. The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq...- I mean of Ukraine.

We can't do everything, but we have to do, what we can do.

Now there's no question China has been trying to crack down on the Internet. Good luck! That's sort of like trying to nail jello to the wall.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Your laugh is the reason your parents never tickled you growing up.