Better to live under one tyrant a thousand miles away…

Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away?

— Benjamin Martin

“I am sitting far from you A thousand miles away from you I sit and write for you A thousand lines I write for…

— Amit Abraham

America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.

— Anonymous

“..bid her beware of French principles, which had led the French to cut off their king’s and queen’s heads.”

— Elizabeth Gaskell

If, for example, one day Ki Bagoes Hadikoesoemo becomes the Indonesian Head of State, and dies, won't his child be [his replacement]? Then because…

— Sukarno

“You can give them the world a thousand times over, and they will throw it away a thousand and one times.”

— Alejandro C. Estrada

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