(151 quotes found)
“Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?”
Mark Twain
“The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
Rosa Parks
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”
Aristotle
“Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience. In a republic, the foundation of public order is the ever lessening habit of submission inherited from ancestors who, being truly governed, submitted because they had to. There are as many kinds of republics as there are graduations between the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution”
“Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.”
John Steinbeck
“The doctor glanced up at the statue of the Republic, then said he did not know if he was using the language of reason but he knew he was using the language of the facts as everybody could see them - which wasn't necessarily the same thing”
Albert Camus
“Freedom is not given, it is taken'”
Contributed by: robert
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
“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
