Quotes About Republic

the founders believed a president should cool the passions of the people, not inflame them, because the national temperature would have a direct effect on the health of the republic. A president who was acting presidential would constrain his or her behavior accordingly.

We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our own history and our doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men. Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.... There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate his responsibility.

When private virtue is hazarded on the perilous cast of expediency, the pillars of the republic, however apparent their stability, are infected with decay at the very centre.

It is understandable that honest men should be dead or in prison in a Republic where the President is a criminal and a thief.

Czech Republics worst pick up line: What's a nice place like this doing around a women like you?

Slavery is indeed gone, but its shadow still lingers over the country and poisons more or less the moral atmosphere of all sections of the republic.

It remains now to be seen whether we have the needed courage to have that cause entirely removed from the Republic.

It is the common wish of the people that the autocratic rule of the Manchu government be overthrown, that the Republic of China be strengthened, and that people's livelihood and welfare be pursued.

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.

For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

A me piace chi conosce il suo mestiere e lavora per far durare le cose di tutti un poco di più. L'arte nobile della manutenzione, di non buttare via quello che ancora può funzionare, che si può aggiustare. Anche questo per me significa una repubblica fondata sul lavoro, e sul restauro.

But literature served only as a preparation for the real goal. This was rhetoric, the key to an active political career under the empire, as it had been under the Republic.

But then something went terribly, terribly wrong. Athens had invented a democracy, but learned that you could have a democracy or an empire, but not both at the same time for long. Rome was now about to relearn that lesson. It had invented a republic, but was now to learn that you could have a republic or an empire, but not both at the same time for long.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool.

Res publica res est populi A republic is the people's property

As you wisely said, Scipio, a true republic can exist only when the citizens consent to be bound together under the law. The monstrosity you describe surely deserves the name of tyranny just as much as if it were a single person. Actually, it is even worse, for there is nothing more despicable than a government that falsely assumes the appearance and the name of .

As Gustave Flaubert said, "I defend the poor Republic but I don't believe in it.

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.

Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.

I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

Ideological ambiguity has been a hallmark of Italian politics since the foundation of the republic in 1946.

enough for the Republic—but the Empire is order from chaos. What we do here—and in thousands of systems just like this one—brings us closer to our ultimate goal." Sloane thought for a moment. "Perfection?" "Whatever the Emperor wants.