Republican Government Quotes
36 Republican Government quotes by 16 unique authors
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We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
— Alexander Hamilton
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There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most of…
— John Stuart Mill
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A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people
— Susan B. Anthony
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I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.
— Alexander Hamilton
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If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican…
— Noah Webster
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The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions of it. The religion of…
— Noah Webster
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I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in an eminent degree,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly…
— George Washington
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The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.
— James Madison
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A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican…
— Alexander Hamilton
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[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges holding their offices…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it, may forget their…
— James Madison
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I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.
— James Madison
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In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.
— James Madison
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The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
— John Quincy Adams
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The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public vote of…
— Victoria Woodhull
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In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to…
— James Madison
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A republican government is in a hundred points weaker than one that is autocratic; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government, and with what…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself is levelled against…
— James Madison
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Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and…
— Lewis Cass
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