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Quotes

• “A just estimate of that love of power requires that it should be restrained within proper limits by such checks and balances as the Constitution has provided. ”

  George Washington , Farewell Address · View

• “A free government rests upon public virtue. ”

  John Adams , Letter to Zabdiel Adams · View

• “I have read Cicero till I am tired of him, and his philosophy is not worth a straw. ”

  John Adams , Letter to Thomas Jefferson · View

• “Faction is the mark of a declining republic, not a thriving one. ”

  Benjamin Franklin , Letter to Samuel Cooper · View

• “The moment faction takes root, the republic is in danger. It is not the form, but the spirit of government that preserves liberty. ”

  Gouverneur Morris , Constitutional Convention Notes · View

• “Faction will tear the republic apart if we do not guard against it. ”

  Patrick Henry , Virginia Convention Speech · View

• “The moment faction takes root, the republic is in danger. ”

  Gouverneur Morris , Constitutional Convention Notes · View

• “They have always proved the destruction of liberty, and are abhorrent to the spirit of a free republic. A free republic will never keep a standing army to execute its laws. It must depend upon the support of its citizens. ”

  Robert Yates (Brutus) , Brutus. Essay VIII, 10 Jan 1788. · View

• “History furnishes no example of a free republic, anything like the extent of the United States their governments were changed from that of free governments to those of the most tyrannical. ”

  Robert Yates (Brutus) , Brutus. Essay I, 18 Oct 1787. · View

• “When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. ”

  Benjamin Franklin , Attributed · View

• “A republic can only be supported by a virtuous and educated citizenry. ”

  Benjamin Rush , Thoughts Upon the Mode of Education · View

• “The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt and so universally confessed that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it. ”

  James Madison , Letter to Robert Walsh · View

• “Slavery is inconsistent with the genius of republicanism. ”

  Robert R. Livingston , Speech to NY Assembly · View

• “Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. ”

  John Witherspoon , Sermon to Congress · View

• “The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. ”

  Benjamin Rush , Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical · View

• “We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. ”

  Thomas Jefferson , First Inaugural Address · View

• “The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. ”

  Benjamin Rush , Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical · View

• “A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking. ”

  James Madison , Federalist No. 10 · View

• “The destiny of our republic depends on our ability to remain united. ”

  George Washington , Farewell Address · View

• “The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. ”

  Benjamin Rush , Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical · View

• “Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private virtue, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. ”

  John Adams , Letter to Mercy Otis Warren · View

• “Public virtue is the only foundation of republics. ”

  Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View

• “Ambition and avarice are the bane of republics. ”

  Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View

• “Freedom is the breath of the republic. ”

  Mercy Otis Warren , History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution · View