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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 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 At twenty every one is republican. - Alphonse de Lamartine Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism. - Alphonse de Lamartine Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. [Fr., Les republiques finissent par le luxe; les monarchies, par la pauvrete.] - Charles de Montesquieu (Charles-Louis de Secondat), De l'Esprit (VII, ch. IV) Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful. - Epes Sargent 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. - Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other. - George Washington 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. - George Washington
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