Quotes About Republic
On the contrary. In this case I think there's every chance the republic would fall apart if the legal process was observed.
~ Philip Kerr
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You talk like the Nazis were going to win the election, Bernie." "I keep hoping they won't. And I keep worrying that they might. But I've got seven loaves and five fishes telling me the republic needs more than just a lucky break this time. If I wasn't a cop, I might believe in miracles. But I am and I don't. In this job you meet the lazy, the stupid, the cruel, and the indifferent. Unfortunately, that's what's called an electorate.
~ Philip Kerr
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I've always voted Republican because America is exactly that, a republic. You can't expect much leadership with a Democrat behind the desk their not even close to dual efficient.
~ Audrey Meadows
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I believe in a Republic of Merit in which water is allowed to find its own level, where voters, like drivers, are tested before being turned loose.
~ Florence King
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In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the Republic. There have been Congresses more dilatory. There have been Congresses more irresponsible, though not many of them.
~ Charlie Pierce
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And although his perspective was absolutist and unyielding, it presented a kinder, gentler alternative to Calvinism, which had been the ecclesiastical status quo in the early years of the American republic.
~ Jon Krakauer
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All men," Homer wrote, "have need of the gods," and the secular wish to banish religion from the public square is perennial but doomed—one might as well try to eliminate economics, geography, or partisanship as forces that shape our politics. The more productive task is to manage and marshal the effects of religious feeling on the broader republic.
~ Jon Meacham
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A man liberated from monarchical or hereditary limitations stood a greater chance of possessing a mind free to roam and to grow and to create and to innovate in a climate in which citizens lived together in essential harmony and affection.87 This was Jefferson's ideal republic—and he was
~ Jon Meacham
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It is perhaps a sign of the strength of our republic that so few people feel the need to participate. That must be the reason.
~ Jon Stewart
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The tone of the new ones, in their TED Talks, in PowerPointed product launches, in testimony to parliaments and congresses, in utopianly titled books, was a smarmy syrup of convenient conviction and personal surrender that he remembered well from the Republic. He
~ Jonathan Franzen
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The New Regime even recycled the old Republic's buzzwords, collective, collaborative. Axiomatic to both was that a new species of humanity was emerging.
~ Jonathan Franzen
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The apparatchiks, too, were an eternal type. The tone of the new ones, in their TED Talks, in PowerPointed product launches, in testimony to parliaments and congresses, in utopianly titled books, was a smarmy syrup of convenient conviction and personal surrender that he remembered well from the Republic.
~ Jonathan Franzen
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The one thing everyone in the Republic had plenty of was time. Whatever you didn't do today really could be put off until tomorrow.
~ Jonathan Franzen
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Adoctrinada por un ejercicio de siglos, le república de hombres inmortales había logrado la perfección de la tolerancia y casi del desdén. Sabía que en un plazo infinito le ocurren a todo hombre todas las cosas. Por sus pasadas o futuras virtudes, todo hombre es acreedor a toda bondad, pero también a toda traición, por sus infamias del pasado o del porvenir.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
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Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed.
~ Abraham Lincoln
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Uang Jaya! Jaya! Seratus Jepang, satu republik, uang jaya - Kakek Mo
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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Dia sangat cinta pada republik, revolusi, dia mencintai kampung halamannya, biarpun busuk-busuk membumbungkan gas lumpur dan kotorannya sendiri.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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Seluruh kedudukan enak diambil orang-orang tua. Mereka hanya pandai korupsi. Rencana-rencanaku kandas di laci-laci. Angkatan tua itu sungguh bobrok! Setiap republiken mestinya republikein sejati. Satu kesalahan bisa membuat dia jadi khianat tanpa maunya sendiri.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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The people participate in votes in their states to choose electors to elect the president, but the people don't elect the president. We are not a democracy; we are a democratic republic. We have a representation system of government.
~ Michael J. Knowles
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Inequality was written into the creation of the American Republic when our Founding Fathers denied voting rights to women.
~ Stephanie Coontz
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The U.S. has many vulnerable targets around Iran, and its bases are within the range of the Guards' missiles. We have other capabilities as well, particularly when it comes to the support of Muslims for the Islamic republic.
~ John C. Stennis
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I don't think that voters should be fixated on public policy. In a healthy republic, they wouldn't have to worry every waking hour about what their government is doing.
~ David Harsanyi
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I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and it had hope. And all of a sudden, I see that being dissolved, and I see, as a country, as a people, we are a republic. We are a democracy.
~ Craig T. Nelson
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Look at the Weimar Republic and their hyperinflation in the early '20s. It didn't happen overnight. I've used the analogy, it's a lot like soybeans: you plant 'em, you wait. Conditions take some time. You need some sun; you need some water, but ultimately things start to grow, and are we in that phase or not?
~ Rick Santelli
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