(153 quotes found)
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”
Aristotle
“That book [Bible], sir, is the rock on which our republic rests.”
Andrew Jackson
“Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal”
William Allen White
“Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments -- a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.”
William Jennings Bryan
“What have you wrought ... A Republic if you can keep it.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead”
Nancy Mitford
“Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution”
Mark Twain
