Republic Quotes - Page 9

• While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rivers, America, Navy

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.560, Delphi Classics

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• If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

  Neal Stephenson

  Hypocrisy, Virtue, Coastal

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.144, Spectra

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• American girls are much more financially savvy - for example, if a girl went to Paris and she was going to do a fragrance campaign, she would say she wouldn't do it for less than half-a-million dollars. Whereas a girl from the Czech Republic would do it for $100,000. I think that's a really big imbalance that created the demise of the modeling industry - and it also created a gap in giving girls an opportunity to become or gain super-status.

  Michael Flutie

  Girl, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Lying, Justice, Ignorant

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• The typical American corporation is a shareholders' republic the same way that China is a peoples' republic.

  James Surowiecki

  Typical, Corporations, Way

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• It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.

  Alan Lightman

  Country, Philosophy, Philosopher

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• And the only forms of socialism in the world that were then getting results - malign ones, as it was - were the Fascist and Soviet republics. Fascism is a form of socialism - you rebuild the country, you find a scapegoat, and you go from there.

  James Ellroy

  Country, World, Socialism

  Interview by Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where a tiny minority control the vast majority of wealth, power, and resources. In doing so, they have absolute control over the 99% of the population. Power equals control.

  Howard Nemerov

  America, Majority, Population

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• MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Political, Crowds

  Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (2000). “The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires”, p.223, Univ. of Tennessee Press

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• Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

  Tabitha Soren

  Giving, Analysis, News

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• There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you can last more than 200 years. Weve got to continue to sustain the system, and the only way you can do it is by sustaining the constitution and by confronting lies face to face, head on, aggressively.

  Maurice Hinchey

  Lying, Years, Way

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• NDCC is an admirable job of amassing information to prove that communism is socialism and socialism (a plot to enslave the world) is not a movement of the downtrodden but a scheme supported and directed by the wealthiest of people. If enough Americans read and act upon NDCC, they really can save the Republic from the conspirators--whose plans for the destruction of our country are galloping fast toward completion.

  Dan Smoot

  Country, Jobs, People

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• The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Names, Degrees, Different

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.27, Beard Books

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• A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

  Fisher Ames

  Rocks, Feet, Water

  Attributed to Ames, speaking in the House of Representatives, 1795; quoted by R. W. Emerson in 'Essays' (2nd series, 1844) no. 7, but not traced in Ames's speeches

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• Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively.

  David Liss

  Important, Research, Financial

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• Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.

  Pope Francis

  Praying, South, Pray For Peace

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• While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.

  Patrick Awuah, Jr.

  Motivation, Inspiration, Ghana

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• The Czech Republic are coming from behind in more than one way now.

  John Motson

  Czech Republic, Way, Behinds

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• Good evening. A President who lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends and neighbors; a President whose administration initially tried to destroy the first man to nail that lie; a President whose henchmen then ruined the career of the intelligence asset that was his wife when intelligence assets were never more essential to the viability of the Republic; a President like that has tonight freed from the prospect of prison the only man ever to come to trial for one of the component felonies in what may be the greatest crime of this young century.

  Keith Olbermann

  War, Lying, Men

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• The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.

  William Alexander

  Anger, Weapons, Tanks

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• The American Republic and American business are Siamese twins; they came out of the same womb at the same time; they are born in the same principles and when American business dies, the American Republic will die, and when the American Republic dies, American business will die.

  Josiah Bailey

  Business, Principles, Twins

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• We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

  Charles Schumer

  Balance, Nuclear, Tantrums

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• We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Sports, Party, Believe

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• Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.

  Jeffrey Jones

  Powerful, Czech Republic, Political

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• Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, Age, Theatre

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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