73 Quotes About Republic

While property continues to be pretty equally divided, and a considerable share of information pervades the community; the tendency of the people's suffrages, will be to elevate merit even from obscurity. As riches increase and accumulate in few hands; as luxury prevails in society; virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful appendage of wealth, and the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.

To shift the power, democracy replaced bloodshed with ballot .

Democracy saved you from being a slave, now don't try to be someone's master.

Laws are made to save the democracy directly and demography indirectly.

Democracy is not just a system, it is an idea that we all have value.

Let someone else be the most powerful country, make ours the most peaceful country.

according to the economists, the function of the state was not merely one of ruling the nation, but also that of recasting it in a given mold, of shaping the mentality of the population as a whole in accordance with a predetermined model and instilling the ideas and sentiments they thought desirable into the minds of all.

Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.

I do not doubt the principles upon which this nation has been erected. Nor do I doubt the ability nor the passion of the common person to uphold them. What I doubt are the leaders who get caught up in the drama of their own agendas to the point that the principles of this great republic become the stuff of fodder in the service of those agendas. That is what I doubt.