Subject:  American Minute - Sept. 20 - Fisher Ames
Date:  Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:15:02 -0500
American Minute with Bill Federer

September 20

Fisher Ames helped ratify the U.S. Constitution and authored the
House language of the First Amendment.

At age 46, he was elected Harvard's president, but declined due to an
illness which led to his death on July 4, 1808.

An orator, Fisher Ames stated no one could be eloquent "without being
a constant reader of the Bible and an admirer of the purity and
sublimity of its language."

In January 1788, Fisher Ames stated:

"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which
the...ignorant believe to be liberty."

In his "Dangers of American Liberty," February 1805, Fisher Ames
warned that democracy without morals would eventually reduce the
nation to the basest of human passions, swallowing freedom:

"A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its
own destruction."

In Palladium magazine, SEPTEMBER 20, 1789, Fisher Ames wrote:

"We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education.
We're starting to put more textbooks into our schools...containing
fables and moral lessons...

We are spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should
be the principal text in our schools."

Fischer Ames concluded:

"The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other
manmade book."



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