Republic Quotes

606 quotes by 397 authors

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed… — Niccolo Machiavelli
While I was not consulted prior to the President's decision to intervene in support of the Republic of Korea, that decision from a military standpoint,… — Douglas MacArthur
America has joined forces with the Allied Powers, and what we have of blood and treasure are yours. Therefore it is that with loving pride… — Unknown Author
[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests. — Andrew Jackson
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue… — Benjamin Rush
A republic may be called the climate of civilization. — Victor Hugo
"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?" — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic… — Benjamin Franklin
The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to… — Thomas Jefferson
Yes, we did produce a near perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of… — Thomas Jefferson
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human… — Thomas Jefferson
[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by… — Algernon Sidney
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos. — John Marshall
In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and… — Mark Twain
It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own,… — James Madison
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it needs… — James Madison
It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed, than… — Calvin Coolidge
It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions… — Alexander Hamilton
A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it,… — James Madison

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