Republican

(200 votes)   The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(140 votes)   The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(130 votes)   Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

Alexis De Tocqueville
1805-1859, French Social Philosopher

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(108 votes)   The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.

Giuseppe Mazzini
1805-1872, Italian Patriot, Writer

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(107 votes)   We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.

Charles Baudelaire
1821-1867, French Poet

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(104 votes)   People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

Friedrich Engels
1820-1895, German Social Philosopher

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(97 votes)   Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(86 votes)   A Republican by principle and devotion, I will, until my death, oppose all Royalists and all enemies of my Government and the Republic.

Jean Baptiste Bernadotte
1804-?, King of Sweden and Norway, One of Napoleon Bonaparte's Marshalls

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