“Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights.” — Émile Zola 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… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image