Choices Quote by Garet Garrett

Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is…

— Garet Garrett

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

— Thomas Jefferson

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

— John Adams

So what's the difference between republican and democratic forms of government? John Adams captured the essence of the difference when he said, 'You have…

— Walter E. Williams

If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know…

— Thomas Jefferson

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

— Wendell Phillips

In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and…

— James Madison

Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object: the public good; but they differ…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The ‘republican’ variant is that freedom must mean non-domination. Stemming from Aristotle, republican freedom requires freedom from potential domination as well as from actual…

— Guy Standing

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

— Anonymous

Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy…

— H. L. Mencken

The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no…

— James Madison