James Monroe
Politician
"In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!"
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Friedrich Engels
Philosopher, Political Theorist
"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy."
Jawaharlal Nehru
Politician, Prime Minister
"Citizenship consists in the service of the country."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny."
Franklin Pierce
Politician
"The founders of the Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self sacrificing Patriotism and as time has proved, with a comprehensive wisdom which it will always be safe for us to consult"
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"We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic."
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"Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine."
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"Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . ."
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"In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws."
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"In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident."
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"Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?"
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"In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law."
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"This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it."
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"[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly."
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"Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education."
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"This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic."
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"Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies."
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"Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander."
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"Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)"
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"As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the prince, which temporarily supply the want of religion."
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"A Republic, if you can keep it."
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"When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form"
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"Republic. I like the sound of the word."
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"The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them."
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"A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it.""
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