In the Islamic Republic the rights of the religious minorities are respectfully regarded.
— Ruhollah Khomeini
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
— Samuel Johnson
Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.
— Aristotle.
I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine.
— Charles Krauthammer
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
Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic. [A big problem then and now]
— Adrian Goldsworthy
But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.
— Jean-Pierre Raffarin
It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country ...
— Alan Lightman
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
With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established.
— Ruhollah Khomeini
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
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
If everyone could just live near the ocean, I think we'd all be happier. It's hard to be down about anything knee deep in the sand.
— Crystal Woods
The Donetsk People's Republic is the self-declared pro-Russian government that wants to break away from Ukraine.
— Richard Engel
We need to get back to the Alliance - " She corrects herself. That's old thinking. "The New Republic.
— Chuck Wendig
Germany's strength lies largely in the fact that the Federal Republic is a center of industry and that it's an export nation.
— Angela Merkel
Tortured for the Republic.
— James A. Garfield
The sun is setting on the New Republic," Leia said. "It's time for the Resistance to rise.
— Claudia Gray
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
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
