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James Monroe (/mənˈroʊ/; April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fifth President of the United States from 1817 to 1825. Monroe was the last president of the Virginia dynasty, and his presidency ushered in what is known as the Era of Good Feelings. Born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, Monroe was of the planter class and fought in the American Revolutionary War. He was wounded in the Battle of Trenton with a musket ball to his shoulder. After studying law under Thomas Jefferson from 1780 to 1783, he served as a delegate in the Continental Congress.

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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.

Ancient, Example, Growth, Nations, People, Prosperous

We must support our rights or lose our character, and with it, perhaps, our liberties.

Character, Perhaps, Rights, Support

I regret that I should leave this world without again beholding him.

Beholding, Leave, Regret, Should, World

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

Made, Payment, Payments, Revenue, Show, States

The earth was given to mankind to support the greatest number of which it is capable, and no tribe or people have a right to withhold from the wants of others more than is necessary for their own support and comfort.

Numbers, People, Support, Earth, Withhold, Necessary

While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe, the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to them whose minds have not yielded to the evidence which has convinced us.

Assert, Believe, Embrace, Godly, Mind, Profess

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

Change, Essentials, Europe, Experienced, Lasts, Session

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

Evil, Government, Likely, Patriotic, Sum

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

Important, Population, Produce, Sensibly, Unions

The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.

Country, Liberty, Object, Prayer, Prayers, Prosperity

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

Children, Importance, Representative, Republic

During the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress and George Washington - I call him the first George W. - (laughter and applause) - urged citizens to pray and to give thanks and to ask for God's protection.

George, Giving, Laughter, Thanks, Urged, War

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

Wise, Mean, Patriotic, Preservation, Establish, Free

The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent.

Character, Extended, Human, Ingratitude, Liberty, Rights

Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of the people to put aside private interest for public good. The imperatives of virtue attached all sorts of desiderata to the republican citizen: simplicity, frugality, sobriety, simple manners, Christian benevolence, duty to the polity. Republics called on other virtues--spiritedness, courage--to protect the polity from external threats. Tyrants kept standing armies; republics relied on free yeomen, defending their own land.

Army, Aside, Christian, Relied, Rely, Simple

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

Character, Exigencies, Obligation, People, Require, Sacred

Peace is the best time for improvement and preparation of every kind; it is in peace that our commerce flourishes most, that taxes are most easily paid, and that the revenue is most productive.

Commerce, Improvement, Paid, Preparation, President

National honor is national property of the highest value.

Life, Patriotic, Army, Property, Highest, Value

The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the faithful application of it to the purposes for which it is raised. The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made.

Faithful, Purpose, Purses, Public, Officially, Departments

If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.

America, Blood, Fight, Fighting, Power

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