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

Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution. — Mark Twain

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic. — Sammy Sosa

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

Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests. — Nicolas Sarkozy

I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic. — Vaclav Klaus

Martian Congressional Republic Navy. — James S.A. Corey

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine. — Caleb Cushing

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time. — Mark Twain

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic. — Frederick Douglass

But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic. — John Steinbeck

If we just go back to the basics ... I do not want to give up our republic and become a socialistic ideological nation. That's not who we are. — Diane Hendricks

Virtue is necessary to a republic. — Baron De Montesquieu

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

Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan. — Pope Francis

the wretched practices of the Republic endured: corruption, decadence, the lust for prestige. — John Jackson Miller

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

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

The Roman Republic would soon be destroyed by the unfettered energy of its great men. The redeeming feature of this aristocracy and — Will Durant

Lola swore she would never return to that terrible country. On one of our last nights as novios she said, Ten million Trujillos is all we are. — Junot Diaz

No good government but what is republican ... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.' — John Adams

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. — Thomas Carlyle

Dominican Republic is, is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etcetera. — Pat Robertson

Tortured for the Republic. — James A. Garfield

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

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated. — Wendell Phillips

I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic. — Alberto Fujimori

MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. — Ambrose Bierce

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic. — Elliott Abrams

This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic. — James Bovard

The Republic will not be destroyed by terrorism. — Francois Hollande

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

The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength. — Georg Buchner

But no matter what the truth, remember: Dominicans are Caribbean and therefore have an extraordinary tolerance for extreme phenomena — Junot Diaz

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

The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. — Karl Liebknecht

An armed man is a little republic unto himself — Dan Baum

British Columbia has been described as a banana republic, only with bigger bananas, — John Vaillant

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Republic ... it means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. — John Wayne

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

She's a legend. She's really huge in the Czech Republic. Everywhere, actually. — Petra Kvitova

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. — John Adams

The most intimate community of all knowledge - the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars. — Novalis

The Republic's most wanted criminal is just a boy, sitting before me, suddenly vulnerable, laying all his weaknesses out for me to see. — Marie Lu

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim. — Andrew Carnegie

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. — Marie Lu

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

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

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs? — Mark Twain

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

How can a republic be the best form of government if the universe, heaven and hell are all a monarchy? — Alan W. Watts

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant. — James Russell Lowell

[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places. — James Monroe

When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family. — Maika Monroe

The Republic cured me of the Republic. — Barbara W. Tuchman

In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect. — Baron De Montesquieu

In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably. — George Ayittey

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

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not. — Anna Howard Shaw

It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate. — Rand Paul

Heaven is not a republic. — E.A. Bucchianeri

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Washington, one feels in Washington, is the spoiled child of the republic. — Montgomery Schuyler

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests. — Andrew Jackson

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

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

The one thing everyone in the Republic had plenty of was time. Whatever you didn't do today really could be put off until tomorrow. — Jonathan Franzen

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic. — John Quincy Adams

I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America. — Cynthia McKinney

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. — Andrew Johnson

The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome. — Robert W. Welch Jr.

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

Republic. I like the sound of the word. — John Wayne

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it. — Plato

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

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. — Heinrich Heine

A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement — Edmund Burke

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

I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team. — Alisher Usmanov

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

The Republic will destroy terrorism. — Francois Hollande

I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor. — Toussaint Louverture

For PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR. — William J. Federer

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose. — Ulysses S. Grant

The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. — Thomas Jefferson

I would like to tell you as the president of the republic, I am not embarrassed to listen to the Youth of my country and to respond to them. — Hosni Mubarak

If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure us our rights. — Jacob Schiff

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

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

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy? — Alan Watts

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws. — Tacitus

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

Players from the Dominican Republic have a history of not playing well in cold weather ... The ball hurts their hands when they make contact. — Grady Little

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty. — Baron De Montesquieu

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

Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, not the progressive realignment of American foreign policy. — Simon Cottee

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

In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger. — Mark Kurlansky