An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
Plutarch
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
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Wendell Phillips
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Vladimir Lenin
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
James Madison
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Charles de Montesquieu
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
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Aristotle
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
Charles de Secondat
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
Ambrose Bierce
There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.
Robert Welch
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