While I was not consulted prior to the President's decision to intervene in support of the Republic of Korea, that decision from… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
“that in the midst of murders and civil wars, our republic became stronger [and] its citizens infused with virtues.… A little bit… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The earlier days of the republic went into the acquisition of money and the provision for material things is now finding an… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Taiwan becoming a local government… — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so… — Charles Carroll of Carrollton Copy Share Image
Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power . . . troubled the intellectual leaders… — Joe Conason Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
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I think that our republic was created in a way that is meant to be as inclusive as possible. Obviously that means… — Sam Rasoul Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
This nation is on a course where if we don't do something about it, get federal situation, the fiscal policy [under control],… — Judd Gregg Copy Share Image
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.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The communists basically acted as the police force of the security system of the [Spain] Republic and were very much opposed to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
To every reversal of people's soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the… — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The American Republic and American business are Siamese twins; they came out of the same womb at the same time; they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
America's grand strategy did not come from nowhere. It followed from our deeper conception of ourselves, and our American identity. Who are… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter,to… — James Madison 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
The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic… — Boris Trajkovski Copy Share Image
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As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin;… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
I see [Lyndon] Johnson as the war in Vietnam, and the invasion of the Dominican Republic and so on. So I'm not… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I'm a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
I came to realize that one single human being, comprehended in his depth, who gives generously from the treasures of his heart,… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon,… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
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