I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
“I have always thought that the notion of a Republic is a noble one, dating back to the glory days of Hellas,… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
It used to be the custom in this country that when you had made a career and were mature in judgment, you… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run–… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Nothing like this has been attempted before. (...) It might be called a literary Porto Alegre. That implies a beginning, with much… — Perry Anderson Copy Share Image
It is part of our "Mormon" theology that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired; that our Republic came into… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions… We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in… — Brian Reynolds Myers Copy Share Image
“In this age, there is no substitute for Christianity. That was the religion of the founders of the republic, and they expected… — United States House Judiciary Committee of Congress 1854 Copy Share Image
We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland, which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The United States has been fighting African pirates since the early days of the republic - battles so formative that, among other… — Nick Turse Copy Share Image
... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“...any government was going to have traffic laws. Before the Emperor, the Republic had enforced its edicts at the laser-sharp edge of… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
If 'Mystery Train' is my Nixon book and 'Lipstick Traces' my Reagan book, 'Invisible Republic' is my Bill Clinton book. I really… — Greil Marcus Copy Share Image
As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure… — William Greider Copy Share Image
The American founding is not just about a group of people, a group of men. It is about an ideal: Both a… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
The Middle East is now filled with death and destruction and that was the aim of Neo-Conservatives who planned this destruction of… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
When I was 15 years old, or 16, I carried around on the streets of Brooklyn a paperback copy of Plato's Republic,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the… — Akhmad Kadyrov Copy Share Image
Czech Republic is an important part of central Europe. It's clear that we must participate in European integration. I am convinced that… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was… — Gerry Adams Copy Share Image
The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
