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Republic Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit…
- Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude…
- In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost…
- The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed…
- The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that…
- The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.
- If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness,"…
- The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do…
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- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was… — Gerry Adams
- The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. — Ambrose Bierce
- I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe. — Ruben Blades
- For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. — Lionel Blue
- This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic. — James Bovard
- For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose… — William Jennings Bryan
- I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for… — Smedley Butler
- The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. — Thomas Carlyle
- Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and… — Amy Chua
- In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. — Marcus Tullius Cicero