Republics Quotes
65 quotes by 46 authors
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and…
— James Madison
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than…
— James Madison
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To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence…
— Vladimir Lenin
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The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.
— Noah Webster
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As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I do know is…
— Jose Mujica
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There are still to be found , or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of…
— James Russell Lowell
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Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace…
— Jefferson Davis
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An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with…
— James Madison
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Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of past…
— Calvin Coolidge
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