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“But though a Church of England man thinks every species of government equally lawful, he does not think them equally expedient; or for every…

— Jonathan Swift

Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Why, how can you ask such a question? You are a republican." A republican! Yes; but that word specifies nothing. Res publica; that is,…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in…

— Thomas Jefferson

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

— Caleb Cushing

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

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— John Adams

Since 1981, when President Ronald Reagan took office promising to scale back the federal government, Republican leaders have promised to cut regulation and taxes,…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is…

— Garet Garrett

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

— John Adams

While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'

— Nancy Pelosi

Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is…

— Garet Garrett