Republic Quotes

Build what you want to see in the world.

— Jack Dorsey

Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

— Joey Comeau

Long live the Republic, and long live France.

— Francois Hollande

I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.

— Sam Lipsyte

Long live the Republic, long live France.

— Emmanuel Macron

Tortured for the Republic.

— James A. Garfield

Virtue is necessary to a republic.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Tennis is a big thing in the Czech Republic.

— Karolina Pliskova

Washington, one feels in Washington, is the spoiled child of the republic.

— Montgomery Schuyler

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

— Joseph Pulitzer

What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The language of law should be simple and straight, if you expect people to obey it.”

— Amit Kalantri

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

— Grover Cleveland

“the very definition of a Republic, is "an Empire of Laws, and not of men.”

— Charles River Editors

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

— Calvin Coolidge

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

— Andrew Johnson

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.

— John Quincy Adams

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas…

— Robert Trout

I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and…

— Monica Raymund

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

— Anna Howard Shaw

With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic…

— Lee Myung-bak

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

— Emile M. Cioran

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations…

— Ulysses S. Grant

I did a film recently in the Republic of Georgia [upcoming 'Halo of Stars'] which was based on a long poem written…

— Lily Collins

And the only forms of socialism in the world that were then getting results - malign ones, as it was - were…

— James Ellroy

We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present…

— Allen West

Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural…

— Joseph Story

Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I haven't read anything by…

— Kim Young-ha

Our American heritage is threatened as much by our own indifference as it is by the most unscrupulous office or by the…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a…

— Calvin Coolidge

As you know, the Australian Labour Party is committed to turning the country into a republic. We've not stipulated a timeline for…

— Kevin Rudd

When a republic's most venerable institutions no longer operate as they were intended, it becomes possible for small cabals to usurp power,…

— T. D. Allman

The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the…

— John Rarick

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the…

— Alexander Hamilton

We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass…

— Christopher Hitchens

It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Of one man in especial, beyond anyone else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Anti-Americanism is as old as the Republic--a historical constant, which is only remotely related to specific American behavior. So what is new?…

— Josef Joffe