Many republics have risen in the past, and some of them flourished long, but sooner or later they fell; and the cause most potent in bringing about their fall was in almost all cases the fact that they grew to be governments in the interest of a class instead of governments in the interest of all.
Roosevelt warns against the dangers of class-based governance, highlighting historical patterns of republics' failures.
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