Quotes About Republic

the wretched practices of the Republic endured: corruption, decadence, the lust for prestige.

Imperial Navy had been in existence by that name for less than a decade, since Chancellor Palpatine put down the traitorous Jedi and transformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire.

Having navigated himself into unchallenged authority, he used it to turn a failing republic—as if it were a Virgilian vine—into an empire that flourishes

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

British Columbia has been described as a banana republic, only with bigger bananas

In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.

She took up the defence of the Republic, and against its anti-clericalism had not more to say than: "I should be equally annoyed whether they prevented me from hearing mass when I wanted to, or forced me to hear it when I didn't!

God has distributed His benefits in such a manner that there is no area on the earth so rich that it does not lack all sorts of goods," wrote the French political theorist Jean Bodin in 1568. "It appears that God did this in order to induce all the subjects of His Republic to entertain friendly relations with one another.

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

A healthy civil society and vibrant republic ultimately cannot survive without a properly functioning constitutional system.

single political party and ideology, they not only destroy their own purpose but threaten the existence of a free republic.

And at the center of what is left of the American republic is the Constitution. The Constitution is the bedrock on which the nation was built. As Thomas Jefferson explained, "Our peculiar security is in possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction."2

must demand a media worthy of our great republic.

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

In the republic of poetry, the guard at the airport will not allow you to leave the country until you declaim a poem for her and she says Ah! Beautiful.

According to Polybius, Cato once remarked that one sign of the deterioration of the Republic was that pretty boys now cost more than fields, jars of pickled fish more than ploughmen.

Two central tenets of Republican government were that office holding should always be temporary and that, except in emergencies when one man might need to take control for a short while, power should always be shared.

But the last century of the Republic was more than a mere bloodbath. As the flowering of poetry, theory and art suggests, it was also a period when Romans grappled with the issues that were undermining their political process and came up with some of their greatest inventions, including the radical principle that the state had some responsibility for ensuring that its citizens had enough to eat.

Unchecked competition eventually did more to destroy than to uphold the Republic.

It is not to be supposed that Frederick felt much sympathy with the free young Republic established in America. And if he sent a sword of honor to Washington in 1783, it was because he recognized the greatness of the man; and perhaps, too, because he felt a malicious pleasure in the humiliation of George III.! The