I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire. — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time — David Coleman Copy Share Image
I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old. — Albert Pujols Copy Share Image
Dominican Republic is, is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etcetera. — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country. — Alan Lightman 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
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
“When a man begins to feel that he is the only one whou can lead in this republic, he is guilty of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin Copy Share Image
We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin Copy Share Image
I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection,… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes… — Theodor Herzl 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
If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
America has joined forces with the Allied Powers, and what we have of blood and treasure are yours. Therefore it is that… — Charles E. Stanton Copy Share Image
I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the… — James Mace Copy Share Image
The continual whine of lamenting the burden of taxes, however successfully it may be practiced in mixed governments, is inconsistent with the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! — Alexander Henry 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
“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