Republic Quotes - Page 14

• If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

  Jane Addams

  Men, Rights, Every Man

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• If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness," unaccompanied by a sense of moral accountability. We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Sacrifice, Practice, People

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Office, Democracy, Library

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• This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen.

  George Carlin

  Art, Prayer, Father

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• I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell more.

  Colm Toibin

  Territory, Might, Novel

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• Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active member of the 'Cagoule' group, committed to the violent overthrow of the Third Republic, and hosted meetings at Oreal headquarters.

  Geoff Mulgan

  War, Groups, World

  "Because you're worth it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2006.

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• There is this huge Roma problem in Europe. There are a lot of Romas who are discriminated against in countries like the Czech Republic or Hungary. They are an ethnic minority that in Europe everyone loves to hate.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Country, Hate, Czech Republic

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• The [Barack Obama] administration is sharing its knowledge, its expertise with the incoming administration. And this, to us, is a sign of encouragement, to continue the good cooperation that we have built between the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Germany that is in our mutual interest.

  Angela Merkel

  Encouragement, Mutual Interest, America

  Source: time.com

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• We conducted talks on border issues with our friends in the People's Republic of China for 40 years. There were also issues related to specific territories.

  Vladimir Putin

  Years, Issues, People

  Source: www.rt.com

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• The communists basically acted as the police force of the security system of the [Spain] Republic and were very much opposed to the anarchists, partially because [Joseph] Stalin still hoped at that time to have some kind of pact with Western countries against [Adolf] Hitler. That, of course, failed and Stalin withdrew the support to the Republic. They even withdrew the Spanish gold reserves.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Security Systems, Support

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Growing Up, Czech Republic

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• Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.

  Amy Chua

  Tolerance, Innovation, Enlightenment

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• Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

  Allen West

  Compassion, Independence, Together

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• This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

  Allen West

  Agendas, Who We Are, Progressive

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• The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.

  Allen West

  Integrity, Prejudice, Share

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• Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Liberty, Foundation

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• To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using an illegal drug, is intolerable in our republic. You are saying to him, "I wonder if you are not behaving in a way that I approve of. Convince me that you indeed are. Outrageous. Intolerable.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Drug, Wish, Demand

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in China. The first is internal, that is, the contradiction between the working class and the bourgeoisie. The second is external, which is the contradiction between China and the imperialist countries. Consequently, after the victory of the people's democratic revolution, the state power of the people's republic under the leadership of the working class must not be weakened but must be strengthened.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Chinese Revolution, Land

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• As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Political, Honor, Would Be

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• Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.

  Samuel Adams

  Kings, Men, Law

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• The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Independence, Principles, United States

  Mercy Otis Warren (1805). “History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: Interspersed with Biographical, Political and Moral Observations”, p.7

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• I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

  Edith Wharton

  Beauty, America, Despair

  Edith Wharton, Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis, Nancy Lewis (1988). “The letters of Edith Wharton”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.

  Paul Keating

  Government, Australia, Done

  Interview with John Laws, Radio 2GB, May 14, 1986.

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• Chairman Mao was after all a principal founder of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China. In evaluating his merits and mistakes, we hold that his mistakes were only secondary. What he did for the Chinese people can never be erased. In our hearts we Chinese will always cherish him as a founder of our Party and our state.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Mistake, Party, Heart

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

  Friedrich Engels

  Taken, Thinking, Reality

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1959). “Basic writings on politics and philosophy”, Anchor

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