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