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Letter "R" » republics
«In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority»
«Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.»
Author: Vladimir Lenin
| Keywords:
Ancient Greek, ancient Greeks, capitalist, Greek, owners, republics, slave owner
«Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| Keywords:
monarchies, republics, ruins, The monarchy
«Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics»
«An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
ailment, fatal, imbalance, imbalances, oldest, republics
«Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
decline, degenerate, degenerated, degenerating, democracies, republics
«On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
abuse, abuse of power, candid, examination, factions, frequently, minority, produced, republics, trampling, turbulence
«As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the princ»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
Fear of God, observance, observances, republics, sustained
«Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| Keywords:
done for, dreamed, gulf, gulfs, Gulf of, in truth, neglects, preservation, principalities, principality, republics, self-destruction, self preservation
«Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Imagination,
Living,
Reality
| Keywords:
abandons, bring about, done for, How We Live, imagined, in reality, principalities, principality, removed, republics
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