Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We are a republic, very inefficient. If you want a really efficient form of government, you have a king or a dictator.… — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Executive power is exercised by the President of the Governing Board who, with the title of President of the Republic of Chile,… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
I have never injected myself or had anyone inject me with anything. I have not broken the laws of the United States… — Sammy Sosa Copy Share Image
The people are not always well-informed, but is better that they have misconceptions that make them restless than that they be lethargic-for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
The sanctions have nothing to do with our relations with China, because our relations with the People's Republic of China are at… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic?… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
STAR WARS is really three trilogies, nine films. The first trilogy covers the fall of the Republic and the rise of the… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
The founders of the Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self sacrificing Patriotism and… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
Even when we are deeply divided over important issues facing our country and the world, "In God We Trust" for the guidance… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
As a Republic governed through the utilization of a democratic process, elections are necessary in order to give every United States citizen… — Byron Goines Copy Share Image
To the American people I bid a fond farewell. Guard your liberties. It is the trust of each generation to pass a… — Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Copy Share Image
One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo.… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Back in the days of the Soviet Union, the countries of Eastern Europe, being under the control of the USSR, would call… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Democracy, as a form of government, is utterly repugnant to—is the very antithesis of—the traditional American system: that of a Republic, as… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage… — Bob Schaffer Copy Share Image
This aggression will not stand. With these words, George Bush committed the United States to the liberation of the oil-rich Kingdom of… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“according to the economists, the function of the state was not merely one of ruling the nation, but also that of recasting… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The Federated Republic of Europe-the United States of Europe-that is what must be. National autonomy no longer suffices. Economic evolution demands the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special ops forces into countries… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I'd always admired the intellectuals who had made the transition into politics - Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Vaclav Havel in the… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“Moreover, a Republic trusting to her own forces, is with greater difficulty than one which relies on foreign arms brought to yield… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
