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This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

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

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

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.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.