Constant Quote by Wendell Phillips

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

— Wendell Phillips

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

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

— Horace Mann

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

— Timothy D. Snyder

Large republics seem to be essentially and inherently aggressive.

— Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

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

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

— John Adams

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 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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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