'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart,… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I think we [Americans] are going to look back and realize that the civil liberties that we've given up in the name… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy,… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
There are people working their butts off trying to save our republic and save democracy from the likes of powerful people in… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Haiti is unique - the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Finally, it is my most fervent prayer to that Almighty Being before whom I now stand, and who has kept us in… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for you… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whoop it up for liberty! After Ireland is free, says the patriot who won't touch socialism, we will protect all classes, and… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Ours is a war not against a religion, not against the Muslim faith. But ours is a war against individuals who absolutely… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Our republic is a responsible nuclear state that, as we made clear before, will not use nuclear weapons first unless aggressive hostile… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
We handed over nothing, those territories [Tarabarov Island to China] were disputed and we have been negotiating this issue with the People's… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I spoke on the phone with President Rouhani of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The two of us discussed our ongoing efforts… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Parties in our Government have no better idea than to think the Republic stands all the firmer upon opposition; but I say… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The Niagara on a bicycle. It's like trying to cross the Niagara on a bicycle, which is impossible, but it's an expression… — Juan Luis Guerra Copy Share Image
Stay here til I come to fetch you." I no longer recognize you in the Republic of Joy," I loftily informed him.… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
The problem is, you have to look at Afghanistan also in a global context where we've canceled basically our missile defense system… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
My wife, well she has extensive experience, because before becoming the first lady, she was the wife of the CEO of a… — Lee Myung-bak Copy Share Image
The Chinese traditionally have revered age and longevity - I have one and hope for the other! - so, in Taipei, a… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Fascism was part of the absolute evil. (...) We have to denounce the ashaming pages in the history of our past. (...)… — Gianfranco Fini Copy Share Image
All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“...any government was going to have traffic laws. Before the Emperor, the Republic had enforced its edicts at the laser-sharp edge of… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The United States has been fighting African pirates since the early days of the republic - battles so formative that, among other… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run–… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“In this age, there is no substitute for Christianity. That was the religion of the founders of the republic, and they expected… — United States House Judiciary Committee of Congress 1854 Copy Share Image
People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in… — Brian Reynolds Myers Copy Share Image
We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland, which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image