Republican Government Quotes

• In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, Government, Voice

  George Washington (1839). “Life”, p.303

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• The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Southern, Foundation

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.440, Penguin

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• In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Politics, Republican

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.106, Library of Alexandria

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• The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Nine, Helping

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Man is not free unless government is limited.

  Ronald Reagan

  Men, Liberty, Libertarian

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Military, Moving

  Remarks to state chairs of National White House Conference on Small Business, 15 Aug. 1986

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• We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Freedom, Real, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton (1932). “Jeffersonian principles and Hamiltonian principles: extracts from the writings of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton”

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• Our politicians are stupid.And the Mexican government is much smarter, much sharper, much more cunning. And they send the bad ones over because they don't want to pay for them. They don't want to take care of them.

  Donald Trump

  Stupid, Mexican, Care

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Business, Military

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

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• A republican government should be based on free and equal education among the people

  Susan B. Anthony

  Teaching, Government, People

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Government, People

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.95, University of Virginia Press

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• It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it, may forget their obligations to their constituents, and prove unfaithful to their important trust.

  James Madison

  Government, Important, Degrees

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788”, p.285

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• We have seen that the tendency of republican governments is to an aggrandizement of the legislative at the expense of the other departments. The appeals to the people, therefore, would usually be made by the executive and judiciary departments.

  James Madison

  Government, People, Republican

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.249, Coventry House Publishing

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• We are now to rank among the nations of the world; but whether our Independence shall prove a blessing or a curse must depend upon our own wisdom or folly, virtue or wickedness.... Justice and virtue are the vital principles of republican government.

  George Mason

  Blessing, Government, Justice

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• I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in an eminent degree, all the beneficial purposes of society.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Degrees, Purpose

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• [A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Moving, Government, Momentum

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.438

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• I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Principles, Conformity, Constitution

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist Papers”, p.15, Penguin

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• If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know no other measure, it must be agreed that our governments have much less of republicanism than ought to have been expected; in other words, that the people have less regular control over their agents, than their rights and their interests require.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Government, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

  James Madison

  Government, Principles, Debt

  Letter to Henry Lee, 13 Apr. 1790

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• I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient or future aristocracy; and a foundation laid for a government truly republican.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Virginia, Foundation

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• The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

  John Quincy Adams

  Government, Republican, Manners

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• In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.

  James Madison

  Government, Unions, Disease

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

  James Madison

  Tyranny Of The Majority, Injustice, Oppression

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.241

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• The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression . . . by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Sex, Mean, Race

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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• In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to render them by different modes of election, and different principles of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions, and their common dependence on the society, will admit.

  James Madison

  Government, Political, Principles

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2009). “The Federalist”, p.341, Harvard University Press

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