A Republican by principle and devotion, I will, until my death, oppose all Royalists and all enemies of my Government and the Republic.
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
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.
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.
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.
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature — a type nowhere at present existing.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.