Comprehensive Quote by Franklin Pierce

In their admonitions to us, the Founders were very clear that to maintain a republic like ours, to maintain a constitutional republic - a…

— Mike Johnson

The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“The Fathers of the Republic, I believe, were far cleverer fellows than they are commonly represented to be, even in the schoolbooks. If it…

— H.L. Mencken

“Our founding fathers understood that republics were vulnerable; they knew that “many republics in history, such as the Roman republic, had been replaced by…

— John W. Dean

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the family and…

— Livy

“there are two distinct viewpoints in every republic: that of the populace and that of the elite. All the laws made in order to…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without…

— Benjamin Rush

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.

— Alexander Hamilton

Living in a republic demands a great deal of us.

— Ben Sasse

It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of…

— Andrew Johnson

“What you seem so unwilling to accept, even now, is this: that the ideals which supported the old republic had no correspondence to the…

— John Williams