The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government
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William Henry Harrison
Republics are ungrateful.
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Anonymous
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom a republic is a raft which will never sink but then your feet are always in water.
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Fisher Ames
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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Alexander Hamilton
A republican government is slow to move yet when once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible.
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Thomas Jefferson
More Quotes By Thomas Jefferson
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power...
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
