When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the… — Lewis Cass Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am more than ever convinced of the dangers to which the free and unbiased exercise of political opinion - the only… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse… — George Mason Copy Share Image
There is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; for the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A republican government is in a hundred points weaker than one that is autocratic; but in this one point it is the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue,… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Our politicians are stupid.And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Parties in our Government have no better idea than to think the Republic stands all the firmer upon opposition; but I say… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you… — Brian Celio Copy Share Image
The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there… — George Washington Copy Share Image
[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
We have seen that the tendency of republican governments is to an aggrandizement of the legislative at the expense of the other… — James Madison Copy Share Image