Republic Quotations | Page 4

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

Tortured for the Republic.

Los Estados Unidos has turned into a banana republic, a fascist banana republic.

Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme.

it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.

If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.

The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.

Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)

We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

If he can't recreate the Republic of Texas, I think his second best is to recreate the Alamo right down here.

I can't convince anyone it isn't CGI, ... Actually, I went to the Czech Republic and found a guy who owns, privately, 100 Russian T-72 tanks. It was no problem to lend them to me, but he needed them back to sell to Libya. I also had to inform NATO we were filming there. Someone in the Pentagon could have been looking at satellite images and noticed an arms buildup.

After the signing of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman on the street, "What have you given us, sir?" Franklin Responded, "A Republic, if you can keep it." A critical moment in history has come; our Republic is in jeopardy. Can we keep it? If the answer to that question, as I fear, is "no," then we have no one to blame but ourselves.

I want you [Sarah Palin] to know you have my support. But please look into protection for your family. An attempt on you could bring the republic down.

Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?

And the only forms of socialism in the world that were then getting results - malign ones, as it was - were the Fascist and Soviet republics. Fascism is a form of socialism - you rebuild the country, you find a scapegoat, and you go from there.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]

How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

Might his last glance behold the glorious ensign of the Republic still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in all their original lustre.

The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.

Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.

Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.

We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.

What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.

I take a step toward him and grin cheerfully. "With all due respect, I don't see the Republic tacking up wanted posters with your pretty face on them.

Our Republic is not a pastoral, not a military, not an agricultural, not a nomadic, not a clerical, but a business civilization. Nor is there anything random, casual or accidental about the United States as a business society. It is thoroughly well integrated - organized from top to bottom for the maximum efficiency of commerce and industry, for the maximum efficiency of making money.

The Islamic State is dangerous, a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic is even more so.

No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

Reverend Jesse Jackson, President-for-Life of the People's Republic of Himself.

The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation.

We must smother the internal and external enemies of the Republic or perish with it; now in this situation, the first maxim of your policy ought to be to lead the people by reason and the people's enemies by terror.

There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you can last more than 200 years. Weve got to continue to sustain the system, and the only way you can do it is by sustaining the constitution and by confronting lies face to face, head on, aggressively.

The Iranian nation and its officials are peace-seekers and the Islamic republic would not invade anybody.

The unilateral cease-fire proposed by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the government of Serbia is clearly insufficient.

These inequalities have happened in other countries - imperial France or some banana republic - but for 200 years we were the land of opportunity.

This is a great day for the Serbian nation, for all citizens of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, for the future of the peace and stability in this region.

Alex is not a hypocrite. I was just trying to say he doesn't have to please people. He doesn't have to make people from the United States or from the Dominican Republic or from Venezuela happy. When you do that, you sound like you are a hypocrite. You say, 'Hey I want to play for the United States and that's the team I belong on,' move on and that's it.

The Czech Republic is ready to advise Macedonia on the road to EU.

The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point of departure for the socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom.

Those who expect radical changes in policy and direction are mistaken and lost. The government of the fourth republic will build on what was undertaken by previous governments and will continue with all good things.

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

The DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) committed to abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and returning at an early date to the treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons and to IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) safeguards.

The DPP will never shrink from, or compromise on, its positions to maintain national dignity and safeguard the people's interests, ... We're a sovereign, independent nation called the Republic of China. We are not a part of someone else. We're not a local government.

The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation.

The Central African Republic is free to close its border, but we regard the decision only as a gesture of courtesy with Chad rather than an objective move.

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

Among the barbarians as well is the People's Republic of China with a gulag all of its own - far, far more sophisticated than the Russians.

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'

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.

The law should have the final say, and the republic is determined to be stronger than those who want spread violence and fear. Those people will be apprehended, judged and punished.

The king of Saudi Arabia recently came to India not to see our Republic Day ceremony. He came to see what is happening to the Indian economy and where he can invest his personal money in the equity market. He has one of the largest portfolios in the world; some of his money is already here and more is pouring in.

The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.

It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.

And further, I tell you that the Jew is right, when he acts as he does - because we are too timid to be as German as the Jew is Jewish! ... It happened at the time of the [Bavarian] Soviet Republic: When the unleashed subhumans rambled murdering through the streets, the deputies hid behind a chimney in the Bavarian parliament.

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic."

And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.

We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us, there is no elsewhere.

[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.

I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.

Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have to respect the Turkish Republic's laws

When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.

Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

Women are free in the Islamic Republic in the selection of their activities and their future and their clothing.

I have never injected myself or had anyone inject me with anything. I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic. I have been tested as recently as 2004, and I am clean.

This is America, not a banana republic.

Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the State [People's Republic of China].

As someone who grew up there, I say: The Chechen Republic must remain part of Russia. Everything else is negotiable.

Joseph Kony is hiding somewhere in the Central African Republic. He is no longer a threat. We have already punished him. We provide our own safety.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.

What have you wrought ... A Republic if you can keep it.

When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

A Republic, if you can keep it.

A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. Under this Republic the rewards of industry belong to those who earn them.

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

If One Wishes That a Sect of a Republic Live a Long Time, It Is Necessary to Draw It Back Often toward Its Principle

The policy of the People's Republic of China is that there is only one China, which we accept,

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable - omnipotent on condition that it do nothing.

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 optional obedience.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Pray consider what a figure a man would make in the republic of letters.

A democracy is as really a republic as on oak a tree, or a temple a building

The unquiet republic of the maze of planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness

The republic is a dream, Nothing happens unless first a dream

The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.

I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.