Apathy Quote by Epes Sargent

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Virtue is necessary to a republic.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

— Horace Mann

Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“Every republic runs its greatest risk not so much from discontented soldiers as from discontented multi-millionaires. They are very rarely, if ever, content with…

— Kory Stamper

The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we…

— Allen West

“The freest people, like the freest man, is always in danger of re-lapsing into servitude. Wars are almost always fatal to Republics. They create…

— Albert Pike

I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

— Theobald of Bec

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion…

— John Adams

But in Republics there is a stronger vitality, a fiercer hatred, a keener thirst for revenge. The memory of their former freedom will not…

— 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…

— Anonymous

“Forgive yourself for the lives that will be lost, but do not forget them. A good leader always recognizes that sacrifices must be made…

— Courtney Praski