Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations.
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other.
Revolts, republics, revolutions, most; No graver than a schoolboy's barring out.
A noble farce, wherein kinds, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre.
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.
... It was in masking education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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