Republics Quotes

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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… — Theodore Roosevelt
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every… — John Hancock
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
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
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. — Vladimir Lenin
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. — James Madison
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. — Baron de Montesquieu
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. — Wendell Phillips
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. — Plutarch
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because… — Joseph Story
None of our republics would be anything if we weren't all together; but we have to create our own history - history of United Yugoslavia,… — Josip Broz Tito
But in Republics there is a stronger vitality, a fiercer hatred, a keener thirst for revenge. The memory of their former freedom will not let… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they… — Aristophanes
It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace… — Chuck Palahniuk
All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen… — Isabel Allende
The Arab monarchies, especially Jordan and Morocco, are more legitimate than the false republics, with their stolen elections, regime-dominated courts and rubber-stamp parliaments. — Elliott Abrams
There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later… — Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly… — Carlos Fuentes
As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the… — Niccolo Machiavelli

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