" Nothing,” he declaimed to the assembled town, “could be more gratifying to eight millions of people than to behold the man whom they have voluntarily placed at the head of their government, ardently laboring to promote the welfare and happiness not of a few, not of a faction; not of his dependents and flatterers; but of the whole American Republic. "

― , The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness