Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Large republics seem to be essentially and inherently aggressive. — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Copy Share Image
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics. — George Packer Copy Share Image
All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics — John Adams Copy Share Image
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful. — Epes Sargent Copy Share Image
Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated… There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . . — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
“Leda: 'I would rather become an international adventuress and bring down kings and emperors.' Maxim: 'But this is the age of republics… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The freest people, like the freest man, is always in danger of re-lapsing into servitude. Wars are almost always fatal to Republics.… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
The Arab monarchies, especially Jordan and Morocco, are more legitimate than the false republics, with their stolen elections, regime-dominated courts and rubber-stamp… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I mean, republics have fallen because of Praetorian Guard mentality where government officials get very arrogant, they identify the national interest with… — William Barr Copy Share Image
Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Some countries have a parliamentary republic, some are presidential republics and some are still monarchies, but no one sees them as not… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“The freest people, like the freest man, is always in danger of re-lapsing into servitude. Wars are almost always fatal to Republics.… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. — James Madison Copy Share Image
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Kings play at war unfairly with republics; they can only lose some earth, and some creatures they value as little, while republics… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
![“[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by virtue: The worst men always conspiring against them, they must fall, if the best have not power to preserve them. . . . [and] unless they be preserved in…” quote by Algernon Sidney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1c1/algernon-sidney-20606_conspiring_a-ll-popular-and-well-mixed-governments_696129.jpg)
