Republic Quotes
These are some of the best 'Republic' quotations and sayings.
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A monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom, whilst a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in water.
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A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.
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At twenty, everyone is republican.
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Equal and exact justice to all: peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, and entangling alliances with none; the support of State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administration of our domestic concerns, are the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies.
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It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.
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Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. - On the contrary, under no form of government are laws better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.
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Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
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Republics are ungrateful.
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Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments.
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