Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Last season when I was on set...for some reason I had The Battle Hymn of the Republic in my head but I… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror. — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
My fellow Americans: Last night when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt 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
It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits;… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld… — Algernon Sidney 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
The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
I would like to tell you as the president of the republic, I am not embarrassed to listen to the Youth of… — Hosni Mubarak Copy Share Image
I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people. — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
During the games of the Circus, he had, imprudently or designedly, performed the manumission of a slave in the presence of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe. — Ruben Blades 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
I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and… — Monica Raymund Copy Share Image
Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading… — Chris Hughes Copy Share Image
Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters--who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image