"[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, …"

"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…"

"Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination: on the contrary, that under no form of government, will la…"