Aggressive Quote by Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

— Wendell Phillips

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

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

— Wendell Phillips

Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.

— Timothy D. Snyder

A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny;…

— Simon Bolivar

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

— Horace Mann

I think the soft underbelly of Russia is - what's driving their ability to be aggressive is their energy. If you take the energy…

— Ryan Zinke

We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world - a monster country, one might…

— George F. Kennan

Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.

— Philip Wylie

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

— Thomas Huxley

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