Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism.” ~ James Monroe (1758-1831), 5th US PresidentSource: speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788