Republic Quotes
606 Republic quotes by 397 unique authors
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The issues which today confront the nation are clearly defined and so fundamental as to directly involve the very survival of the Republic. Are we…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore the Republic to…
— Douglas MacArthur
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We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of suffering…
— Robert Neelly Bellah
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Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.
— Mark Twain
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The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some…
— Michael O'Leary
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The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little…
— Barbara Amiel
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A fraudulent vote is a stolen vote. It steals a vote from the thin air and nullifies the legal and legitimate vote of a tax-paying…
— Mike Huckabee
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Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The English government having determined not to respect my rights as a French citizen and officer, and summoned me before a court martial, I have…
— Wolfe Tone
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But while Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible. There is no word strong enough for it. I am pledged as…
— Constance Markievicz
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Whoop it up for liberty! After Ireland is free, says the patriot who won't touch socialism, we will protect all classes, and if you won't…
— James Connolly
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REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an…
— Ambrose Bierce
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All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is…
— H. L. Mencken
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MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself,…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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This aggression will not stand. With these words, George Bush committed the United States to the liberation of the oil-rich Kingdom of Kuwait, after it…
— George H. W. Bush
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Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch…
— Andrew Jackson
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Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.
— Frederick Douglass
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If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic…
— James Connolly
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Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy,…
— Mark Twain
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You, the sons and daughters, the future of Turkiye, even under such circumstances and conditions, your duty is to save the Turkish independence and the…
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.
— Ron Paul
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An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.
— Delphine de Girardin
Who Wrote These Republic Quotes
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