SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC OF AMERICA

For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

— Anonymous

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

— Brian Eno

It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican…

— Junot Diaz

Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China].

— Xi Jinping

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase…

— Gore Vidal

A moment I've been dreading. George brought his ne're-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the…

— Ronald Reagan

“Because sometimes bad things—downright horrible things in fact—must be done. For the greater good of the Republic. The “greater good” is, after all, what…

— Jason Anspach

I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows the form…

— Kim Young-ha

Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and…

— Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

— Charles Baxter

The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation.

— Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

I spoke on the phone with President Rouhani of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The two of us discussed our ongoing efforts to reach…

— Barack Obama

You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

“While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire, I And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass,…

— Robinson Jeffers

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men.…

— Gerald R. Ford