Republic Quotes - Page 27

• So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Yugoslavia, Doe, Influence

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• Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.

  John Steinbeck

  Syntax, Lad, Has Beens

  The Atlantic magazine, November 1969.

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

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, Discovery, America

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• Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Government, President

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Islamic, Support

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• [I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Islamic, Mean, Thinking

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• We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

  Gore Vidal

  Democracy, Earth, Politics

  "Gore Vidal and the Mind of the Terrorist". Interview with Ramona Koval, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio National, November 2001.

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• The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent ... It is by dividing and subdividing these Republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations until it ends in the administration of everyman's farm by himself, by placing under everyone what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye, Government, Liberty

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• The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heart, Government, Law

  Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey (2008). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the commander of the armed forces, full stop.

  Mohammed Morsi

  Egypt, President, Force

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• Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Tyrants, Luxury, Ruins

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• For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Islamic, Mean

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• Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Historical, Democracy

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

  Lionel Blue

  Years, Kingdoms, Favour

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• 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

  Lying, Mean, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.486

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• We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

  Barbara Jordan

  Destiny, Government, Way

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

  Steve King

  Father, Government, Democracy

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• 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

  Careers, Magazines, Journalistic

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• Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its case before the United Nations this fall.

  Nick Lampson

  Fall, Allies, Taiwan

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• No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

  James Larkin

  Fighting, Men, Race

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• Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Tyrants, Slave Owners

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• Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.

  John A. Logan

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, People

  "Memorial Day Order" by John A. Logan, www.cem.va.gov. May 5, 1868.

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• In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

  James Madison

  Respect, Rights, Majority

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Uganda, People, Political

  Thabo Mbeki (2002). “Africa Define Yourself”

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• I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

  Christopher Meloni

  Funny, War, Thinking

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