Quotes of: Republic Keyword

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

The Republic

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The Republic

The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.

The Republic

The philosopher whose dealings are with divine order himself acquires the characteristics of order and divinity.

The Republic

But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.

The Republic

Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.

Reading Lolita in Tehran

What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.

Legend

Republics exist as long as the people "adhere to principles and virtue.

The Life of Andrew Jackson

Puerto Rico was the Republic of Texas on jet-fuel testosterone and psychedelic estrogen.

Puerto Rico City - A Novel

I am republic I am maoist I am activist and I am this and I am that but why? Why can't; I be

The Warrior

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

Nancy Mitford

Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.

Otto von Bismarck

The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.

Os Guinness

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Plutarch

If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.

Steve Stockman

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

Thomas Starr King

The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant.

Martin Van Buren

Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state.

Michael Ignatieff

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

Robert Toombs

The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.

Robert Trout

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.