quotes about Republic
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Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
-- Alan Moore -
Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.
-- Albert Camus -
I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.
-- Albert Pujols -
Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.
-- Alexander HamiltonSource : Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.427
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What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy . . . great improvement . . . were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team.
-- Alisher UsmanovSource : Interview with Ian Cobain, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.
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This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.
-- Allen West -
The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.
-- Allen West -
In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. -
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Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.
-- Azar NafisiSource : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.329, Random House
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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
-- Barbara Jordan -
Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
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Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.
-- Bobby SandsSource : Bobby Sands (1982). “Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands”, Irish Amer Book Company
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I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that
-- Boris YeltsinSource : Boris Yeltsin's speech to the summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Istanbul, news.bbc.co.uk. November 18, 1999.
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People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.
-- Brian Reynolds Myers -
The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
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My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
-- Camille Claudel -
The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
-- Carl Schurz -
I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell more.
-- Colm Toibin -
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The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.
-- Conrad Black -
But while Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible. There is no word strong enough for it. I am pledged as a rebel, an unconvertible rebel, to the one thing - a free and independent Republic.
-- Constance Markievicz -
The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic.
-- Daddy YankeeSource : "CFL Chats with Daddy Yankee". Interview with Krystyna Chávez, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 29, 2013.
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Training with the equipment and protocols at Athletic Republic really helped me improve my speed and first-step explosiveness.
-- Darren McFadden -
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Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively.
-- David Liss -
Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.
-- Delphine de Girardin -
The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
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This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.
-- Elmer Davis -
The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.
-- Evo Morales -
It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.
-- Felix Morley -
We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing their objectives is to condemn our Republic to ultimate strangulation and death.
-- Ferdinand MarcosSource : Extemporaneous remarks during the Meeting with the Leaders of Regions I and II, Mansion House, Baguio City, March 15, 1981.
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As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency, at the service of the Republic.
-- Francois Hollande -
The founders of the Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self sacrificing Patriotism and as time has proved, with a comprehensive wisdom which it will always be safe for us to consult
-- Franklin PierceSource : Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”
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The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
-- Friedrich Engels -
Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active member of the 'Cagoule' group, committed to the violent overthrow of the Third Republic, and hosted meetings at Oreal headquarters.
-- Geoff Mulgan -
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The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength
-- Georg Buchner -
In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.
-- George Ayittey -
Los Estados Unidos has turned into a banana republic, a fascist banana republic.
-- Gerald Celente -
The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.
-- Giorgio Napolitano -
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We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.
-- Gore VidalSource : "Gore Vidal and the Mind of the Terrorist". Interview with Ramona Koval, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio National, November 2001.
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I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
-- Grover Cleveland -
Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.
-- Harriet Martineau -
it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.
-- Harriet Martineau -
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The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.
-- Heinrich Heine -
... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'
-- Hermann Hesse -
If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.
-- Howard Mumford JonesSource : Howard Mumford Jones (1952). “The Bright Medusa”
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So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
-- Ibrahim Rugova -
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Those who expect radical changes in policy and direction are mistaken and lost. The government of the fourth republic will build on what was undertaken by previous governments and will continue with all good things.
-- Jakaya KikweteSource : "Tanzania's New President Sworn in". news.bbc.co.uk. December 21, 2005.
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The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.
-- James ConnollySource : James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.122, Pluto Press
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Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.
-- James Kenneth StephenSource : James Kenneth Stephen (1909). “Lapsus Calami and Other Verses”
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In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws. Its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.
-- James Madison -
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
-- Jane Addams -
It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.
-- Jean-Pierre Raffarin -
The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.
-- Jean-Pierre Raffarin -
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But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.
-- Jean-Pierre Raffarin -
I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations.
-- Jean-Pierre Raffarin -
I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.
-- Jean-Pierre Raffarin -
It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.
-- Johan Huizinga -
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The Czech Republic are coming from behind in more than one way now.
-- John Motson -
Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.
-- Joseph Pulitzer -
The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.
-- Joseph Pulitzer -
It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.
-- Joseph Story -
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The American Republic and American business are Siamese twins; they came out of the same womb at the same time; they are born in the same principles and when American business dies, the American Republic will die, and when the American Republic dies, American business will die.
-- Josiah Bailey -
And further, I tell you that the Jew is right, when he acts as he does - because we are too timid to be as German as the Jew is Jewish! ... It happened at the time of the [Bavarian] Soviet Republic: When the unleashed subhumans rambled murdering through the streets, the deputies hid behind a chimney in the Bavarian parliament.
-- Julius Streicher -
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
-- Karl Liebknecht -
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
-- Lionel Blue -
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In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself ... The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.
-- Louis Antoine de Saint-JustSource : Speech on October 10, 1793. "Oeuvres Complètes de Saint-Just", Volume 2, pp. 83-88, 1908.
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Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
-- Marcus Aurelius -
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
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I take a step toward him and grin cheerfully. "With all due respect, I don't see the Republic tacking up wanted posters with your pretty face on them.
-- Marie Lu -
What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.
-- Marie Lu -
Reverend Jesse Jackson, President-for-Life of the People's Republic of Himself.
-- Mark Steyn -
Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.
-- Mark Twain -
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Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.
-- Mark Twain -
The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.
-- Martin Van BurenSource : Martin Van Buren (1969). “Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”
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There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you can last more than 200 years. Weve got to continue to sustain the system, and the only way you can do it is by sustaining the constitution and by confronting lies face to face, head on, aggressively.
-- Maurice Hinchey -
We belong to the One mastering God: you belong to the republic of playful gods.
-- Maurice Samuel -
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We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror.
-- Maximilien RobespierreSource : Speech to the National Convention, February 05, 1794.
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The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.
-- Maximilien RobespierreSource : Speech on Christmas in 1793. Quoted in "Who said Gaddafi had to go?" by Hugh Roberts, London Review of Books, Volume 33 No. 22, pp. 8-18, November 17, 2011.
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No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.
-- Mercy Otis Warren -
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
-- Mercy Otis WarrenSource : Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.7
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Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward.
-- Michael D. HigginsSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.
-- Michael D. HigginsSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.
-- Mike PenceSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the commander of the armed forces, full stop.
-- Mohammed Morsi -
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Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall.
-- Nick Lampson -
The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.
-- Noah Webster -
Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.
-- Pat Buchanan -
Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."
-- Pete Seeger -