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| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. |
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| Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism. Lamartine. | 1 |
| Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other. Washington. | 2 |
| At twenty every one is republican. Lamartine. | 3 |
| Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies, by poverty. Montesquieu. | 4 |
| Kings are for nations in their swaddling clothes; France has attained her majority. Victor Hugo. | 5 |
| The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: “It exists in spite of its ministers.” Heinrich Heine. | 6 |
| Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful. Epes Sargent. | 7 |
| A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will. Thomas Paine. | 8 |
| 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. Washington. | 9 |
| Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century, and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments. Walpole. | 10 |
| Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,—entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; * * * freedom of religion; freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of habeas corpus; and trials by juries impartially selected,—these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. Thomas Jefferson. | 11 |
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