Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
“He who refuses to rule is liable to be ruled by one who is worse than himself.” — Plato Copy Share Image
Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
The German Reich is a Republic, and whoever doesn't believe it gets one in the neck. — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region. — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure… — Jacob Schiff Copy Share Image
Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. — Junot Diaz 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
Because the people of New Hampshire take their responsibilities as citizens of the Republic seriously, they keep it interesting for candidates who,… — John McCain Copy Share Image
This country, the Republic of Indonesia, does not belong to any group, nor to any religion, nor to any ethnic group, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
My parents, fleeing a repressive regime in the Dominican Republic, were embraced by this country and taught us to love it in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can read it in history books now, but they often suppress the fact that the U.S. government tolerated [Nazi]. It's really… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The Fathers of the Republic, I believe, were far cleverer fellows than they are commonly represented to be, even in the schoolbooks.… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“ Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He… — John Adams Copy Share Image
25 million of Russian people suddenly turned out to be outside the borders of the Russian Federation. They used to live in… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Resistants were on the right side, Salò Republic's combatants on the wrong one. One cannot equate who was fighting for a right… — Gianfranco Fini Copy Share Image
Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
A democracy is as really a republic as on oak a tree, or a temple a building — John Adams Copy Share Image
There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level. — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image