Quotes by Fisher Ames

Quotes 1 till 1 of 1.

• A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

  ― Fisher Ames
  - +

   0

Subjects in these quotes:

• merchantman
• sometimes
• republic
• bottom
• always
• water

Similar authors

• John F. Kennedy
  American politician 119
• Barack Obama
  American politician 103
• Adlai Stevenson II
  American politician and governor 81
• Bernie Sanders
  American politician 81
• Ronald Reagan
  American politician and actor 69
• Ben Carson
  American politician, and author 69
• Bob Beauprez
  American politician and member 46
• Barney Frank
  American politician 44

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations