It is not enough to say we were born to be Republicans…

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

Most of what the founders knew about the Hebraic republic, it must be emphasized, they learned from the Bible. These Americans were well aware…

— Daniel L Dreisbach

The republican model described in the Hebrew Scriptures reassured pious Americans that republicanism was a political system favored by God.

— Daniel L Dreisbach

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members…

— Ralph Adams Cram

“For Croly, the entire process of popular sovereignty exercised through representative republicanism, which led to the drafting, adoption, and ratification of the United States…

— Mark R. Levin

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

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it…

— Herbert Croly