Ages Quote by Anonymous

Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens in such…

— Isocrates

In their admonitions to us, the Founders were very clear that to maintain a republic like ours, to maintain a constitutional republic - a…

— Mike Johnson

The founders of the Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self sacrificing Patriotism and as time…

— Franklin Pierce

But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the governments have…

— Noah Webster

No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

— Mercy Otis Warren

We established however some, although not all its [self-government] important principles . The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is…

— Thomas Jefferson

“the very definition of a Republic, is "an Empire of Laws, and not of men.”

— Charles River Editors

“It had always been thus, one law for the rulers, another for those they ruled. “Can”

— David Penny

The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without…

— Benjamin Rush

We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.

— Thomas Jefferson

Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.

— Timothy D. Snyder

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics

— John Adams