
New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)
From a note of uncertain date by Dr. James McHenry. In a footnote he added that "The lady here aluded to was Mrs. Powel of Philada." Published in The American Historical Review, v. 11, p. 618. At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 http://www.bartleby.com/73/1593.html
Constitutional Convention of 1787
New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)
“A republic, if you can keep it.”
James McHenry diary entry on September 18,1787 https://blogs.loc.gov/teachers/files/2016/09/McHenry-Note.jpg, the day after the signing of the United States Constitution: "A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what we got a republic or a monarchy — A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it."
Attributed
Rousseau's Theory of the State (1873)
Context: We are firmly convinced that the most imperfect republic is a thousand times better than the most enlightened monarchy. In a republic, there are at least brief periods when the people, while continually exploited, is not oppressed; in the monarchies, oppression is constant. The democratic regime also lifts the masses up gradually to participation in public life--something the monarchy never does. Nevertheless, while we prefer the republic, we must recognise and proclaim that whatever the form of government may be, so long as human society continues to be divided into different classes as a result of the hereditary inequality of occupations, of wealth, of education, and of rights, there will always be a class-restricted government and the inevitable exploitation of the majorities by the minorities.
The State is nothing but this domination and this exploitation, well regulated and systematised.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1844): Politics http://www.panarchy.org/emerson/politics.1844.html
Attributed
[Lloyd George] said that for the first time DeV. simply roared with laughter.
Frances Stevenson's diary entry (18 July 1921), A. J. P. Taylor (ed.), Lloyd George: A Diary (London: Hutchinson, 1971), p. 228.
Prime Minister
Introduction to 1891 edition of Karl Marx's, The Civil War in France
History of the War in the Peninsula, Under Napoleon, Volume 1, p. 122
1990s, The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favourite Fetish