Quotes of: Democratic-republic Keyword

We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she's carryin...

Melinda Gates

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. Out first mission was to go...

Dikembe Mutombo

All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.

Robert Darnton

Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barba...

Carlos Fuentes

Yuri Orlov: Every faction in Africa calls themselves by these noble names - Liberation this, Patriotic that, Democratic Republic of something-or-other... I guess they can't own up to what they usually are: the Federation of Worse Oppressors Than the ...

Lord of War

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

Gerald R. Ford

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Gerald R. Ford

, St. Augustine said. It is solved by walking.

Dispatches from the Republic of Otherness

When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.

The Republic of Thieves

Rebellion without reprisal is one of democracy's perks, right?

Dispatches from the Republic of Otherness

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

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

Allen West

Yet while I do this work because of my faith, I also recognize of course that in a pluralistic society there are many different perspectives. It is both unrealistic and wrong to insist that everyone hold my views, my faith. The place we meet, in our ...

A Nun on the Bus: How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, and Community

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

Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12.

Anwar Robinson

In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had to hold themselves together from the bottom up, ul...

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815

Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.

The Republic of Thieves

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

Broken Republic: Three Essays

We don’t see the life after life as it truly is, because in our eyes it conforms to our mechanics of nature.

The Republic of Thieves

I have only two wishes," said Jean. "The first is for strong coffee, and the second is for stronger coffee.

The Republic of Thieves