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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Republic will destroy terrorism. —
Francois Hollande

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12. —
Anwar Robinson

The phony surrender's over; the ceasefire has ended. The final fight for the Republic has begun. —
Marie Lu

The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo. —
Dan Quayle

Art is not a mobocracy. It's a republic. —
Richard Powers

What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the
Republic's most famous criminal. —
Marie Lu

The city of Tehran is a very modern metropolis, and there's an emphasis in the Islamic republic on science and advancement and technology. —
Hooman Majd

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone. —
Conrad Black

I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me. —
Raymond Moody

To keep a kind of republic of the spirit - that's what I call success. —
Edith Wharton

It's the duty of a Republic soldier to be loyal to the end, and I'm still a soldier. I will be one until I die. —
Marie Lu

Music does affect your opinions. Plato is supposed to have said "It's very dangerous to allow the wrong kind of music into the republic." —
Pete Seeger

Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have to respect the Turkish
Republic's laws —
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims. —
Elliott Abrams

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire. —
Marianne Faithfull

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. —
Marcus Aurelius

I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it. —
Huey Newton

I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our
Republic's foundations. —
Jean-Pierre Raffarin

For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool. —
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Republic isn't as much fun as The Symposium. It's all long speeches, and nobody bursting in drunk to woo Socrates in the middle. —
Jo Walton

He talks like he's living in Plato's Republic, not Romulus's shit-hole. —
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The mentality of who is your uncle - an ethnocentric way of thinking, is one of the leading causes of South Sudan's internal conflicts. —
Duop Chak Wuol

Reverend Jesse Jackson, President-for-Life of the People's Republic of Himself. —
Mark Steyn