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All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.

— Robert Darnton

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

— Samuel Richardson

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

— Franklin Pierce Adams

I have established the republic. But today it is not clear whether the form of government is a republic, a dictatorship, or personal rule.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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

— Anna Howard Shaw

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

— Caleb Cushing

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

— Emile M. Cioran

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— James Bovard

Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

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

— Mike Pence