Educated Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a…

— Herbert Spencer

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

— John Adams

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

— Lydia Sigourney

Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

— Simon Bolivar

Republicans believe that problems are best solved at the level closest to the people and that the nation's strength comes from the diversity of…

— Christine Todd Whitman

The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage…

— H. L. Mencken

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

— Caleb Cushing

A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns, not indeed in…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.

— James Monroe

If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a…

— Noah Webster

our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings…

— Lydia M. Child