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1 " Republics never survive, for their people do not like freedom but prefer to be led and guided and flattered and seduced into slavery by a benevolent, or not so, benevolent despot. They want to worship Caesar. So, American republicanism will inevitably die and become a democracy, and then decline, as Aristotle said into a despotism. "
― Taylor Caldwell , Captains and the Kings
2 " True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. "
― Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier
3 " Democracy is easy; republicanism is hard. Democracy is fueled by passion; republicanism is founded on moderation. Democracy is loud, raucous, disorderly; republicanism is quiet, cool, judicious – and that we still live in its light is the Founders' most wondrous deed. "
― Jon Meacham , American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
