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.
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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
The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
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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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He loved Kentucky, ... He thought this was the prettiest country in the world.
James Monroe
Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.
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