Former Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of the people…

— James Monroe

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

— Wendell Phillips

I mean, republics have fallen because of Praetorian Guard mentality where government officials get very arrogant, they identify the national interest with their own…

— William Barr

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

— James Madison

This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while…

— Helen Keller

“Princes had, so to speak, turned violence into a physical thing but our democratic republics have made it into something as intellectual as the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“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

In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils,…

— Joseph Story

“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