How could you say the best form of government is a…

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

— Alan Watts

We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that…

— Walter Cronkite

[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine…

— James Madison

I have established the republic. But today it is not clear whether the form of government is a republic, a dictatorship, or personal rule.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be…

— George Washington

[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy…

— Fisher Ames

If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire. They define…

— John Adams

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a…

— Fisher Ames

Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as…

— John Locke

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his…

— James F. Cooper

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

— Thomas Paine

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms…

— Edmund Burke

Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three forms of…

— John Adams

Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to centuries of…

— Florence King

Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler