Able Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty.

— Baron de Montesquieu

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

— Timothy D. Snyder

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

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

— Horace Mann

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 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

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

— Baron de Montesquieu

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

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

— Wendell Phillips

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Large republics seem to be essentially and inherently aggressive.

— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston