Republic Quotes

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Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

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

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.

It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

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

When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

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

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

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

The life of a republic lies certainly in the energy, virtue, and intelligence of its citizens.

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

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

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

The whole fabric of southern society must be changed, and never can it be done if this opportunity is lost. Without this, this government can never be, as it never has been, a true republic.

News is only the first rough draft of history.

I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.

Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

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

I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.

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

The Islamic Republic is proud to be the target of the rage of the world's greatest Satan.

You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

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

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

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

The Republic doesn't exist out here. We must survive on our own.

Our republic and its press will rise and fall together.

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.

[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

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

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.