Republic Quotes

606 Republic quotes by 397 unique authors

When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost… — Alexis de Tocqueville
In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic.… — Karl Marx
The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers. — Heinrich Heine
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it… — Simon Bolivar
The Islamic State is dangerous, a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic is even more so. — Tom Cotton
The Dominican Republic says 'We're black behind the ears.' And in Mexico, 'there's a black grandma in the closet.' They know, they've just been intermarrying… — Henry Louis Gates
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth… — Robert A. Dahl
This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it. — Elmer Davis
For my first three books the setting (or place if you will) has always been a given - N.J. and the Dominican Republic and some… — Junot Diaz
I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like… — Junot Diaz
The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a… — Friedrich Engels
I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy. — Brian Eno
Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule. — Gerald R. Ford
Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of… — Thor Heyerdahl
We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so… — Martina Hingis
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. — Victor Hugo
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. — Robert Green Ingersoll
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him. — Samuel Johnson
We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon… — Barbara Jordan
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government… — Steve King
I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic'… — Charles Krauthammer
Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its… — Nick Lampson
No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and… — James Larkin
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. — Vladimir Lenin
Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian… — Rush Limbaugh

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