Republic Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing their objectives is to condemn our Republic to ultimate strangulation and death.

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

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

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

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

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

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.

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

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.

The founders of the Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self sacrificing Patriotism and as time has proved, with a comprehensive wisdom which it will always be safe for us to consult

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.

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

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.

A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality. Since every individual ought here to enjoy the same happiness, and the same advantages, they should consequently taste the same pleasures and form the same hopes, which cannot be expected but from a general frugality.

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

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

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.

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.

It is a fallacy to believe that a Republic of any kind can be won through the shackled Free State. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. The Free State is British created and serves British Imperialist interests. It is the buffer erected between British Capitalism and the Irish Republic.

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.

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

Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality.

In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.

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

Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.

The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.

This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

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

We belong to the One mastering God: you belong to the republic of playful gods.

...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

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

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

In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.

I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.

Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.