"[A] licentious people is not going to sustain republican government. We've got to make sure that republican governmen…"

"Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?" "A Republic, if you can keep it."

"The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and di…"

"You and your descendants have to ascertain whether this great mass will hold together under the forms of a republic, …"

"But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the s…"

"In truth, the abuses of monarchy had so much filled all the space of political contemplation, that we imagined everyt…"

"Democracy, republics: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more …"

"When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, resp…"

"Just as people are born, live a time, and die by diseases or old age, in the same way republics are formed, flower a …"

"A republic is, in essence, what a monarchy is not. That, in short, is the argument, based on a very long history of s…"