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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.
- Franklin Pierce
Frequently the more trifling the subject,
the more animated and protracted the discussion.
- Franklin Pierce
With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
- Franklin Pierce
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the
general government of a confederacy so vast as ours
are too obvious to be disregarded.
- Franklin Pierce
On what rests the hope of the republic? One country,
one language, one flag!
- Alexander Henry
This liberal progressive agenda...
is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.
- Allen West
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will
be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world.
- Karl Liebknecht
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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.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men.
Here, the people rule.
- Gerald R. Ford
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more;
women,
their rights and nothing less.
- Franklin P. Adams
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.
- Nancy Mitford
Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations,
the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask
diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall.
- Nick Lampson
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
You're a sovereign as a citizen.
If you're not involved in your government,
you're not doing your job.
In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.
- Michael Novak
Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States -
no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for
their section of the Republic.
- Robert Toombs
The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies.
It works for the people, and only the people,
so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
- Walter Ulbricht
I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example.
I thought that was intellectually hilarious.
The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic...
That to me was funny.
- Christopher Meloni
This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi,
capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.
- Hanoi Hannah
I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict:
Ireland,
South Africa, the Czech republic.
People there are overflowing with energy.
- Brian Eno
When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus,
its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.
- Thomas Day
The principles and policy of these Presidents were
marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship,
promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
- Robert Toombs
We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty.
The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it.
It was a huge party with all the people here.
- Ruud van Nistelrooy
And for well over a hundred years our politicians,
statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic,
not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.
- Robert Welch
I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not
the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis
to who we are as a constitutional republic.
- Allen West
In a republic, that paradise of debility,
the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
- Emile M. Cioran
While trying to protect the republic,
the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph.
In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things,
the more they go wrong.
- Edward Hall
In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely
proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways,
and without the slightest trace of hostility.
- Robert Welch
At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.
- Ziaur Rahman
The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how
and when to be firm and make its values respected.
- Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is
a desirable form of government,
or else it is not.
- Anna Howard Shaw
The national will is the supreme law of the Republic,
and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional
powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.
- Martin Van Buren
Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague.
I went there when I was 12.
- Anwar Robinson
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal.
There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in
the republic of the grave.
- John James Ingalls
Our constitution works.
Our great republic is a government of laws,
not of men.
- Gerald R. Ford
The American Republic was bound - is still bound -
to follow in the centuries to come the same course
to destruction as did Rome.
- Robert Welch
There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in
the republic of the grave.
- John James Ingalls
The difference is that for a soundly conceived and
solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer
for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.
- Robert Welch
This is America, not a banana republic.
- Vincent Bugliosi
The power to mould the future of the Republic will
be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.
- Joseph Pulitzer
I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama,
on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.
- Ruben Blades
The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic,
is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy
steered Thomas Jefferson,
for example.
- Robert Trout
This Republic was called into being,
organized,
and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
- Caleb Cushing
No, men and women of the Irish race,
we shall not fight for England.
We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire
and the construction of an Irish republic.
- James Larkin
I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal
resignation as president of the republic.
- Alberto Fujimori
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
- Grover Cleveland
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress
discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
In a republic this rule ought to be observed:
that the majority should not have the predominant power.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Proof that they do not understand the republic is that
in their fine promises for universal suffrage,
they forgot women.
- Delphine de Girardin
The myth that the founding of American Republic was
based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained,
because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.
- Robert Trout
This republic represents the greatest basis for that
universal socialist order,
the creation of which is at the present time the historic
task of the International Proletariat.
- Karl Liebknecht
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.
- Jeffrey Jones
The Republic of Texas is no more.
- Anson Jones
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded
as one of the leading events of modern times.
- John Lothrop Motley
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me
to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the
president of a republic at war.
- Aslan Maskhadov
The current constitutional law places the president
of the republic in an embarrassing situation.
- Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
The little words in the Republic of Letters,
like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
- Samuel Richardson
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic,
bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
- Robert Welch
My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic.
It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
- Camille Claudel
The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.
- Andrew Jackson
I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to
a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp,
and the audience came down in thunder.
- Thomas Starr King
It's important to show that, while authorizing the
demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion,
the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.
- Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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.
- Nicholas D. Kristof
But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.
- Jean-Pierre Raffarin
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism.
The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
- Lionel Blue
I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of
them attacking our Republic's foundations.
- Jean-Pierre Raffarin
I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings
the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.
- Jean-Pierre Raffarin
This republic was not established by cowards;
and cowards will not preserve it.
- Elmer Davis
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.
- Joseph Pulitzer
Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press,
and I will provide you with a republic.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
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.
- Friedrich Engels
The world is a republic of mediocrities,
and always was.
- Thomas Carlyle
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