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Quotes About Republic

Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)
~ Kant
In his speech, he warns of two possible threats to the republic. The first is found in the lawless actions of the mob, the second in the inevitable rise someday of an aspiring dictator. The gravest peril will come if the mob and the dictator unite.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
But both murders affect Lincoln deeply. In his speech, he warns of two possible threats to the republic. The first is found in the lawless actions of the mob, the second in the inevitable rise someday of an aspiring dictator. The gravest peril will come if the mob and the dictator unite.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
She understood that the Republic faced desperate times. She just wondered how many desperate measures that could justify. Somehow it seemed an affront to the Force to do this to fellow humans, even if they seemed remarkably sanguine about it.
~ Karen Traviss
But there hadn't been one day since she had parted from Omega Squad on Qiilura nine months ago that she hadn't agonized over the use of soldiers who had no choice, no rights, and no future in the Republic that they gave their lives to defend. It was wrong.
~ Karen Traviss
Order 66: In the event of Jedi officers acting against the interests of the Republic, and after receiving specific orders verified as coming directly from the Supreme Commander (Chancellor), GAR commanders will remove those officers by lethal force, and command of the GAR will revert to the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) until a new command structure is established.
~ Karen Traviss
Each step in the development of the bourgeoisie was accompanied by a corresponding political advance in that class. An oppressed class under the sway of the feudal nobility, an armed and self-governing association of medieval commune: here independent urban republic (as
~ Karl Marx
grands dignitaires de l'armée, de l'Université, de l'Église, du barreau, de l'Académie et de la presse étaient partagés, bien qu'en proportion inégale, entre les deux courants. Ils avaient trouvé dans la République bourgeoise, qui ne portait ni le nom de Bourbon, ni celui d'Orléans, mais celui de Capital, la forme d'État dans laquelle ils pouvaient régner en commun.
~ Karl Marx
la même importance que la loi de la transformation de l'énergie pour les sciences naturelles, lui fournit ici également la clé pour la compréhension de l'histoire de la deuxième République française.
~ Karl Marx
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.
~ Mark Twain
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
~ James Russell Lowell
A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.
~ Charles Darwin
All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.
~ James Madison
In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.
~ Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
~ Alan Lightman
Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.
~ Thomas Paine
Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal.
~ William Allen White
The fact of the matter is that, in waging a scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of 'Resistance' against this Administration, it is the Left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law. This highlights a basic disadvantage that conservatives have always had in contesting the political issues of the day. It was adverted to by the old, curmudgeonly Federalist, Fisher Ames, in an essay during the early years of the Republic.
~ William Barr
for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR.
~ William J Federer
Arguably the most substantive domestic issue facing the republic is the fate of Social Security, with privatization the most frequently mentioned option. For the first time in history, a familiarity with the behavior of the financial markets has become a prerequisite for competent citizenship, apart from its obvious pecuniary value. Using
~ William J. Bernstein