I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground…

I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even to the…

— Benjamin Rush

“And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of…

— Anonymous

I connected to this idea of faith and spirituality and religion and Christianity being a very strong crux of who I am at the…

— Adrienne C. Moore

In the past, candidates' performances of 'Christianity' have been strong points for voters, but Trump's ascendancy with evangelicals has eviscerated that expectation. Evangelicals, like…

— Anthea Butler

We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government; that is, the…

— Benjamin Rush

When caring for your neighbor becomes a compulsory obligation imposed by government instead of voluntary, charity turns to confiscation and freedom to achieve to…

— Star Parker

Slavery destroys, or vitiates, or pollutes, whatever it touches. No interest of society escapes the influence of its clinging curse. It makes Southern religion…

— Hinton Rowan Helper

“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and…

— Christopher Hitchens

The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes,…

— Simon Mainwaring

What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust purposes, without a sacrifice of…

— James Madison

the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration…

— Marya Mannes

“Inevitably, as hatred of monarchy was added to hatred of episcopacy, they were led to republicanism.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Parties in our Government have no better idea than to think the Republic stands all the firmer upon opposition; but I say that it…

— Brigham Young

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in…

— John Adams

And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins…

— Voltairine de Cleyre