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I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.