Country Quote by Garry Kasparov

Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.

— Timothy D. Snyder

A Republic is its people.

— Ram Nath Kovind

The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be termed a…

— Joseph Stalin

Germans, Frenchmen and Englishmen can say of themselves: "I am the state." I cannot say that. In Russia only the people in the Kremlin…

— Vladimir Sorokin

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

— Horace Mann

In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens…

— Theodore Roosevelt

When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed the name.

— Beck

They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find…

— Thomas Hobbes

The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils,…

— Joseph Story

Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

— Vladimir Lenin