Fisher Ames
(b. April 9, 1758 - d. July 4, 1808)
📍Dedham, Massachusetts

Ames was a Federalist statesman, lawyer, and celebrated orator. He was a Harvard graduate (1774), he practiced law, helped ratify the U.S. Constitution in Massachusetts, and served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1789–1797).

"It has never happened in the world, and it never will, that a democracy has been kept out of the control of the fiercest and most turbulent spirits in the society; they will breathe into it all their own fury, and make it subservient to the worst designs of the worst men." (1805)

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