Democracy Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

— James Russell Lowell

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

— Anonymous

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

— Gerald R Ford

“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

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after…

— Anonymous

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

— Walter Lippmann

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

— Gerald R. Ford

Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction.

— William Shakespeare

Americans swept away the instruments of English hereditary inequality - entails and titles of nobility - even before we had a constitution.

— Steven Weinberg

All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

— Anonymous

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

— Denis Kearney