#republics

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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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. ↗

— Joseph Story

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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. ↗

— James Madison

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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

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An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. ↗

— Plutarch

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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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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. ↗

— Robert A. Dahl

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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

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