This can only be found in a pure republic; a republic where all men are equalwhere each man lives for the other in living for himselfwhere brother cleaves to brother as his own fleshfamily is knit to familyone, yet manyone, yet of all nations!

The Basques were promised their liberty; they should be allowed to live as they had always lived, practically a republic, if they only succeeded in forcing an absolute monarchy on the rest of Spain.

The maritime republics of Italylike Athens and Rhodes in ancient, Catalonia in mediæval, and England and the Netherlands in more modern timeswere 'peculiarly well fitted, by situation and resources, for the control of the sea by both war and commerce.'