Republican government Quotes · Page 2

The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident…

— James Madison

It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should…

— George Washington

There is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; for the…

— John Adams

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions of it.…

— Noah Webster

I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in…

— Alexander Hamilton

What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself…

— James Madison

The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the…

— Victoria Woodhull

We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse…

— George Mason

When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God…

— Noah Webster

It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it,…

— James Madison

In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different…

— James Madison

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a…

— John Adams

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the…

— James Madison

[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

— Thomas Jefferson

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate…

— Alexander Hamilton

[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

If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a…

— James Madison

He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government,…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do…

— William Pfaff

In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.

— James Madison

The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible…

— Alexander Hamilton

There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.

— John Adams