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- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. — Ambrose Bierce
- Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the… — Thomas Jefferson
- [A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld… — Algernon Sidney
- It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly… — James Madison
- It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust… — Alexander Hamilton
- ...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect… — James Madison