Top 100 Quotes About Republic
#1. The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.
Howard Baker
#2. What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.
Marie Lu
#3. Day didn't fail his Trial. Not even close. In fact, he got the same score I did: 1500 / 1500. I am no longer the Republic's only prodigy with a perfect score.
Marie Lu
#4. The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#5. We're going to form a republic where the people of each district and the Capitol can elect their own representatives to be their voice in a centralized government. Don't look so suspicious; it's worked before.
Suzanne Collins
#6. Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.
Ruhollah Khomeini
#7. To the American people I bid a fond farewell. Guard your liberties. It is the trust of each generation to pass a free republic to the next. And if I know you right, you will rouse yourself from slumber to ensure exactly that.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
#8. Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims.
Elliott Abrams
#9. I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.
Raymond Moody
#10. I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America.
Cynthia McKinney
#11. No single Tibetan dreaming return of previous sort of backwardness, therefore as far as economy development is concerned, Tibet remain within the People's Republic of China, we will get greater benefit.
Dalai Lama
#12. I want you [Sarah Palin] to know you have my support. But please look into protection for your family. An attempt on you could bring the republic down.
Glenn Beck
#13. certain kinds of polities, communist party-states such as the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, are capable, in times of peace, of killing large numbers of their own citizens as a matter of deliberate policy.
Timothy Snyder
#14. One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.
Thabo Mbeki
#16. No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.
James Larkin
#17. Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.
Robert Toombs
#18. Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.
Charles Baxter
#19. Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions
Haile Selassie
#20. It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.
Felix Morley
#21. 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 Buren
#22. I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.
Theobald Of Bec
#23. What he knew was what he had been taught, and what he had been taught was simple: the First Order stood against the deprivations of the Republic. The First Order brought law to a lawless galaxy.
Greg Rucka
#24. You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the Republic, you will find the power you need in the noble blood in your veins.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#25. There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Andrew Carnegie
#26. Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy."
Gore Vidal
#27. In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
Baron De Montesquieu
#28. I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.
Bobby Sands
#29. This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.
Karl Liebknecht
#30. Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
Marcus Aurelius
#31. The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.
Bill Alexander
#32. 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
#33. The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.
Raquel Cepeda
#34. When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.
Robert Toombs
#35. The Republic of Plato is also the first treatise upon education, of which the writings of Milton and Locke, Rousseau, Jean Paul, and Goethe are the legitimate descendants.
Plato
#36. Plato possessed the art to dress up illiberal suggestions in such a way that they deceived future ages, which admired the Republic without ever becoming aware of what was involved in its proposals.
Bertrand Russell
#37. 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
#38. Today's China is an artifact of an extended and contentious history while the relatively young American Republic is a daring project informed by the enlightenment philosophy espoused by the Founding Fathers.
Patrick Mendis
#39. And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.
Robert W. Welch Jr.
#40. Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.
George Bancroft
#41. I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic ... That to me was funny.
Christopher Meloni
#42. A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all manner of inconveniences.
Alexander Hamilton
#43. There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
John Adams
#44. The debased coinage of his reign bore his initials, ICR: Iohannes Casimirus Rex. These were taken to stand for Initium Calamitatum Reipublicae, the Beginning of the Republic's Catastrophes.
Norman Davies
#45. When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
Calvin Coolidge
#46. It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.
Ali Khamenei
#47. 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-Just
#48. When we are deeply divided over important issues facing our country and the world, "In God We Trust" for the guidance and wisdom to do what's both right and necessary for our Republic.
Marco Rubio
#49. In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.
Robert W. Welch Jr.
#50. There is no relationship here between Church and State. Religious liberty has its unalterable place, along with civil and human liberty, in the very foundation of the Republic. I hold it [religious intolerance] to be a menace to the very liberties which we boast and cherish.
Warren G. Harding
#51. Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.
Delphine De Girardin
#52. It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.)
Junot Diaz
#53. 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
#54. Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.
Amy Chua
#55. Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.
Walter Ulbricht
#56. The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.
Walter Ulbricht
#57. Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.
Azar Nafisi
#58. But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#59. The Republic is weak and broken." I narrow my eyes. "But it is still your country. Fight for it. This is your home, not theirs.
Marie Lu
#60. An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
Nancy Mitford
#61. That the whole nation, tired of war, actually only longed for order, quiet, and a little security and bourgeois life. And, secretly it hated the republic, not because it suppressed this wild freedom, but on the contrary, because it held the reins too loosely.
Stefan Zweig
#62. Unlike Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China, the United States was created by an enlightened band of Founding Fathers with a global vision for the new republic.
Patrick Mendis
#63. I am republic
I am maoist
I am activist
and I am this
and I am that
but why?
Why can't; I be
Santosh Kalwar
#64. In 2016, let us all join the Rising, and the only final message is this very clear: Up the Rebels. Up a sovereign and independent Irish republic.
Martin McGuinness
#65. I believe that the capital of the Republic of Albania is a suitable venue for discussing the dialogue among religions and civilizations, notably in the countries of South East Europe, because we are well familiar with this country's track record of religious tolerance.
Georgi Parvanov
#66. Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters
who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity.
Washington Irving
#67. If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure us our rights.
Jacob Schiff
#68. While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.
Henry David Thoreau
#69. [In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.
James Monroe
#70. Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.
Jose Rizal
#71. I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson
#72. I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa.
Claudio Reyna
#73. 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
#74. 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. Higgins
#75. The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.
Robert W. Welch Jr.
#76. His remit will be to monitor the use of reality-modification weapons by both sides in the conflict and to assure the civilized worlds that the New Republic does not engage in gratuitous use of time travel as a weapon of mass destruction.
Charles Stross
#77. How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#78. Nothing is more dangerous to liberty than the power of entailed art and ideas. The very soul of a republic is the common citizen's inalienable access to knowledge.
Lewis Hyde
#79. The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and technology.
Hooman Majd
#80. ...the first twenty years of the republic had done more harm to Italy than the Fascists and Nazis combined.
Marco Vichi
#81. With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.
Lee Myung-bak
#82. In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.
Ernestine Rose
#83. This is Commander Poe Dameron of the Republic Navy,
Greg Rucka
#84. That was the difference, he had always known, between his faith and theirs, the political leaders of the people who cared only for things like the state, the republic: this child was more important than a whole continent.
Graham Greene
#85. MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.
Ambrose Bierce
#86. The flag was green, Snowball explained, to represent the green fields of England, while the hoof and horn signified the future Republic of the Animals which would arise when the human race had been finally overthrown.
George Orwell
#87. 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
#88. I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.
Azar Nafisi
#89. Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.
Daniel Webster
#90. I Guess there is a Limited Gap in this Republic of Bananas due to the DeKay N Y is Le Vice such an alarming Exchange when you Express your Benetton? Ask Tommy, he'll figure!
Natasha Tsakos
#91. [To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.
Queen Elizabeth II
#92. Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, not the progressive realignment of American foreign policy.
Simon Cottee
#93. We are well on our way to becoming a banana republic in every respect except, of course, that we don't grow bananas.
Burt Prelutsky
#94. In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
#95. The question of perpetual copyright is, in my judgement, entitled to the full and favorable consideration of the Congress of an enlightened republic. There would seem to be every reason for the equitable protection, without limit as to time, of the unquestioned property rights of its citizens.
Florence Earle Coates
#96. Haiti is unique - the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into the culture, the voodoo, and that wonderful synchretization of Christian and African belief and symbology, it's like nothing the world has ever seen.
Ben Fountain
#97. Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
Gerald R. Ford
#98. Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5.
Bill Dedman
#99. The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special ops forces into countries from Somalia to South Sudan, conducted airstrikes and abduction missions, even put boots on the ground in countries where it pledged it would not.
Nick Turse
#100. I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
