Republic Quotes

• Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

  Joseph Story

  Wise, Fall, Order

  Joseph Story (1834). “The Constitutional Class Book: Being a Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Designed for the Use of the Higher Classes in Common Schools”, p.154

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• The real menace of our Republic is the invisible Government which like a giant Octopus, sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states, and nation.

  John Francis Hylan

  Real, World Government, Nwo

  "David Rockefeller's Chilling 1991 Speech at a Bilderberg Meeting" by Kalee Brown, www.lewrockwell.com. March 24, 2017.

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• When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Evil, Voting, Principles

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• What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Sacred, Constitution

  American Daily Advertiser, August 28, 1794.

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• The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.

  Walter E. Williams

  Government, Vision, Democracy

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• In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loss, Class, Government

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904”

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• In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Power, Majority

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• 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 and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Money, Hands

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• Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, People, Needs

  Letter to the Abbés Chalut and Arnaud, April 17, 1787.

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• Ours is a representative republic with a Constitution in which is recognized the natural law and the natural rights of man. It is a republic with a spiritual foundation characterized by freedom - freedom for the individual and for his society.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Men, Rights

  Ezra Taft Benson (1969). “An enemy hath done this”

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• Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.

  George Washington

  Happiness, Government, Law

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.20

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• The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hands, Voting, American Voters

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

  John Wayne

  War, Mean, People

  "Fictional character: Davy Crockett". "The Alamo", 1960.

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• One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Rights, Individual, Disregard

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

  Gerald R. Ford

  Work, Men, Law

  Remarks upon taking oath of office, 9 Aug. 1974

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  Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

  John Adams

  Suicide, Freedom, Suicidal

  Letter from John Adams to John Taylor, 15 Apr. 1814

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• This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

  Elmer Davis

  Coward, India, Preserves

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• The people are not always well-informed, but is better that they have misconceptions that make them restless than that they be lethargic-for lethargy in the people means death for republics.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, People, Restless

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• Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

  Benjamin Franklin

  Doctors, Philadelphia, Independence

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Country, Freedom

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Fall, Freedom Of Speech, Together

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• Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Freedom, Character, People

  Benjamin Franklin (1840). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.297

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• It's precisely because America is not a democracy that we have survived! It's precisely because majority rule does have checks and balances on it. It's precisely because this is a representative republic that we have survived.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Majority Rule, America, Democracy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

  James Monroe

  Children, Importance, Representatives

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