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“The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government”
“Republics are ungrateful.”
“A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom a republic is a raft which will never sink but then your feet are always in water.”
“It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.”
“A republican government is slow to move yet when once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible.”
“Republics are brought to their ends by luxury monarchies by poverty.”
