American founding fathers Quote by Benjamin Rush

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in…

— John Adams

The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

“The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and…

— Benjamin Rush

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

— Aristotle

Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired…

— Ronald Reagan

The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than…

— John Adams

[A] republic . . . [is] a government, in which the property of the public, or people, and of every one of them was…

— John Adams

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

Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. Liberty is not provided by government; liberty preexists government. It's our…

— Don Willett

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