Democracy Quote by Anna Howard Shaw

This country is a republic.

— Rick Santelli

I have established the republic. But today it is not clear whether the form of government is a republic, a dictatorship, or personal rule.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

— Thomas Paine

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

— Alan Watts

A Republic is its people.

— Ram Nath Kovind

The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as…

— Alexander Hamilton

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism…

— Earl Warren

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure…

— James Madison

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

— James Madison

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a…

— Fisher Ames

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

— Andrew Johnson

A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level.

— Rick Santelli