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  1. Plato _ The Republic

    The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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  2. Plato _ The Republic

    I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
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  3. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.
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  4. Niall Ferguson _ Civilization: The West and the

    It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about the way people should govern themselves. Some people make the mistake of calling that idea 'democracy' and imagining that any country can adopt it merely by holding elections. In reality, democracy was the capstone of an edifice that had as its foundation the rule of law – to be precise, the sanctity of individual freedom and the security of private property rights, ensured by representative, constitutional government.
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  5. Gore Vidal _ The Decline and Fall of the

    This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.
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  6. R.B. Bernstein _ Thomas Jefferson

    As the nation divided into Federalists and Republicans, each group called the other the worst name possible: "party". Most Americans feared the idea of party; believing that a society should unite to achieve the public good, they denounced parties as groups of ambitious men selfishly competing for power. Worse, parties were danger signals for a republic; if parties dominated a republic's politics, its days were numbered.
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