Republic Quotes - Page 30

• Pay 2 Play vividly tells the story of the threat posed to our political process by big money interests and what we can do to fight back to defend our Republic. This is a must-see movie for anyone who cares about the cause of democracy and the promise of political equality for all.

  John Bonifaz

  Fighting, Play, Political

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• Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Plato, Events, Looks

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.66, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.

  E. M. Forster

  Government, Support, Democracy

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.

  Carl Schurz

  Country, People, United States

  Carl Schurz (1969). “December 13, 1870-February 27, 1874”

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• I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.

  Carl Schurz

  Names, Years, Honor

  Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

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• The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Order, House, Honor

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• Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary.

  Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

  Running, Queens, Australia

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• Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

  David Suzuki

  Country, Rights, Sri Lanka

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• I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Our first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  School, People, Foundation

  "Dikembe Mutombo stands tall for charity". Interview with Giacinta Pace, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2010.

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• The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Self, Forever, Poverty

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

  Mark Twain

  Home, America, Political

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• For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

  Anatole France

  Stars, Sky, Brilliant

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• Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Gratitude, Love Is, Axes

  Friedrich Schiller (2017). “Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller”, p.20, Litres

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• 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

  Men, Life Is, Danger

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.392, Univ of California Press

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• Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Luxury, Poverty, Ends

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• A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Justice, Democracy, Sovereignty

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• And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.

  Robert W. Welch, Jr.

  Thinking, Democracy, Firsts

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• Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic.

  Robert Novak

  Party, Islamic, Thinking

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• We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Truth, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”

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• My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Love, Men, Names

  On being sworn in as President, 9 August 1974: G. J. Lankevich 'Gerald R. Ford' (1977)

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• The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Enemy

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• Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Kings, Attitude, Intelligent

  Theodore Roosevelt (1918). “The Great Adventure: Present-day Studies in American Nationalism”, London : J. Murray

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• I cannot believe that a republic could subsist if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power of the people.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Believe, People, Lawyer

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• When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost the reality of power. The English, having cut off the head of one of their kings and chased another off the throne, still go on their knees to address the successors of those princes. On the other hand, when a republic falls under one man's yoke, the ruler's demeanor remains simple, unaffected, and modest, as if he had not already been raised above everybody.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Kings, Fall, Cutting

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.

  Karl Marx

  Independent, White, America

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.329, Cosimo, Inc.

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