Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Quotes

The founding fathers set up this country as a republic—not a democracy.

The United States is dangerously close to becoming a democracy instead of a republic.

A republic is little better than a government of devils

As for us BRITONS, thank Heaven, we have a better Sense of Government deliver’d to us from our Ancestors. We have the Notion of A PUBLIC and A CONSTITUTION; how a Legislative, and how an Executive is model’d.

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

We had a revolution 2 years ago, and we see a people moving from a completely authoritarian system into a democracy. They don’t know how democracy works. They don’t know the ingredients of a democracy.

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Our city shall have no more kings!

The American political system was created by a bunch of geniuses so that it could be run by a bunch of idiots.

The existence of parties is not necessary to a free government.

Constitutional democracy is a Western idea.

In a republic, if laws are not always respectable, they are always respected.

The Republic established by the founders was a fragile experiment in a world bestrode by kings, queens, emperors, czars, dictators, and theories of aristocracy.

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people.

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.