The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of… — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan is going to go into negotiations with [Vladimir] Putin from a position of strength. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama gave… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones,… — Edie McClurg Copy Share Image
When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
America has an almost obscene infatuation with itself. Has there ever been a big, powerful country that is as patriotic as America?… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
If protesting against having a nuclear bomb implanted in my brain is anti-Hindu and anti-national, then I secede. I hereby declare myself… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Anyone who has walked through the deserted palaces of Versailles or Vienna realise how much of a part of the life of… — William Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from… — John Legend Copy Share Image
When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now… — Robert Novak Copy Share Image
Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed… — Jonathan Tucker Copy Share Image
In the two centuries that have passed since 1776, millions upon millions of Americans have worked and taken up arms when necessary… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
The Czech Republic stood with the U.S., Canada and a handful of other countries against the prevailing international current, but history has… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of… — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the future, they give… — Benny Blanco Copy Share Image
There is militaristic-hegemonic-plutocratic side of the U.S. which is getting out of hand and threatens to corrupt the whole republic. I remain… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Libertarian immigration policy would be an experiment in which I don't think we should participate. We should not bet the republic that… — Jan C. Ting Copy Share Image
An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Ever since Germany was able to regain its unity, it is in an even stronger position to give its contribution to upholding… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the Weimar Republic's early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to… — Mary Fulbrook Copy Share Image
Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Liberals never, ever drop a heinous idea; they just change the name. Abortion becomes choice, communist becomes progressive, communist dictatorship becomes people's… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution of your country and the government established under it. Leave evils which exist in some… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The Communist threat from without must not blind us to the Communist threat from within. The latter is reaching into the very… — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
We're not going to walk into the World Cup thinking, 'Ah, you know, we beat Norway 5-0 and we beat Japan so… — Kasey Keller Copy Share Image
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge… — George Washington Copy Share Image