History
The National Republican Guard is the direct descendant of the Royal Police Guard created in the beginning of the 19th century.
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“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”
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“To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.”
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