Republic Quotes · Page 26

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was…

— Gerry Adams

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

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we…

— John A. Logan

We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us, there is no elsewhere.

— Philip Pullman

Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every…

— Thomas Jefferson

If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic?…

— Alexander Hamilton

This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.

— Hanoi Hannah

The Spain of today looks at the Second Republic with great appreciation and above all with satisfaction and pride for what we…

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Don't sit around waiting for the two corrupted established parties to restore the Constitution or the Republic. The founding generation was birthed…

— Naomi Wolf

Of one man in especial, beyond anyone else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from…

— Alexander Beresford Hope

I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the…

— James Mace

The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a guide, uniform, fixed…

— Levi Woodbury

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war…

— Christopher Meloni

If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

— Howard Mumford Jones

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

— Frederick Douglass

Virtue is necessary to a republic.

— Baron de Montesquieu

The [Barack Obama] administration is sharing its knowledge, its expertise with the incoming administration. And this, to us, is a sign of…

— Angela Merkel

I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams…

— Claudio Reyna

When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.

— Rick Perlstein

The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and…

— Hooman Majd

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

— Wendell Phillips

The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army

— Julius Caesar

This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is…

— Howard Nemerov