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James Monroe
said
What was the origin of our slave population?
— Speech in the Virginia State Convention for altering the Constitution (2 November 1829)
James Monroe
President of the United States from 1817 to 1825 (1758–1831)
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Lived 1758–1831, aged 73United States
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The fifth president wrote a doctrine so durable it shaped American foreign policy for two centuries: keep Europe out of the Western Hemisphere. Monroe presided during a brief stretch of near-unopposed politics, expanded the country dramatically, and became the third president to die on July 4.
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Born in 1758, Monroe fought in the Continental Army before studying law under Thomas Jefferson. He opposed ratifying the Constitution, then pivoted into a Senate career where he led the emerging Democratic-Republican Party. As Jefferson's envoy, he helped negotiate the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, nearly doubling the country's size. A falling-out with James Madison over a rejected treaty led Monroe to challenge him for the presidency in 1808; he lost but joined Madison's cabinet in 1811, running both State and War simultaneously during the War of 1812. That wartime performance made him Madison'…
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James Monroe
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In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
— The Monroe Doctrine (2 December 1823)
James Monroe
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The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments, and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is susceptible.
— Message to Congress (December 1822)
James Monroe
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Our relation to Europe, is pretty much the same, as it was in the commencement of the French Revolution.
— Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1822)
James Monroe
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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.
— First Inaugural Address (4 March 1817)
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