Quotes About Republic

the great responsibility of the women of a Republic." They would not seek to "transcend their heaven-appointed limits, and come forward to mingle in public affairs, which could only restrict their influence—but they should never forget that they are, and are to become, the mothers and educators of our rulers and statesmen

The republic is nothing whatever but—absolute monarchy; for it makes no difference whether the monarch is called prince or people, both being a "majesty.

a thousand county seats of 7,000 each are a thousand times more important to this Republic than one city of 7,000,000. Our unemployment and our unrest are the result of the concentration of wealth, the concentration of population in industrial centers, mass production, and a lot of other so-called modern improvements. "We are building a tower of Babel.

We need to discuss the basis of a new form of trust built on a meaningful form of citizenship appropriate for a republic.

There is a lure in power. It can get into a man's blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do. This is a Republic. The greatest in the history of the world. I want this country to continue as a Republic. Cincinnatus and Washington pointed the way. When Rome forgot Cincinnatus, its downfall began. When we forget the examples of such men as Washington, Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson. then we start down the road. to ruin."501

What remains under consideration is how Cincinnatus, the early Republic, and the other examples, cultures, and structures of governance will be considered in future decisions of how human beings will live in a globally connected commercial, technological, and cultural world.

Second, the age in which we live is one of transitions, an age which in some ways is unparalleled in history, but in other ways is strikingly similar to the successful transition of fledgling Rome from a monarchy to the longest lasting republic in the history of the word.

If the Roman Republic is an example at all, citizens and leaders will realize that those decision makers will base their decisions on particular interests and advantages they see for what James Madison called a "faction.

Liberty is the object of the Republic. Liberty needs virtue. Virtue among the people is impossible without religion.

The French Revolution, the republic, the motherland Ã¢â'¬Â¦ yes, all that paved the way for something, something that lasted a little more than a century. The Christian Middle Ages lasted a millennium and more.

world!" "A republic is undoubtedly the way forth for mankind," Jefferson agrees. "But will men be willing to govern themselves, or is it more convenient to hand the reins of power to someone who promises free bread and wine?

Juro delante de Dios, juro delante de la Patria, juro delante de mi pueblo que sobre esta moribunda Constitución haré cumplir, impulsaré las transformaciones democráticas necesarias para que la República nueva tenga una Carta Magna adecuada a los nuevos tiempos. Lo juro.

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict....We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at another level, the economy of the nation, the empire of business within the republic, both include in their basic premise the idea of perpetual warfare

A true republic is the one that doesn't ignore these cries of innocents. It must be ready to act and adapt to different circumstances of living.

Change can't be expected to happen without keeping the republic free and uncorrupted.

Even in some republic nations they still fail to question the motives of their leaders who have gone astray or try to corrupt the nation.

As the founders often cautioned, a self-governing republic doesn't have a governing class. Part of America's current predicament is that it now has a permanent, unelected one, unanswerable to the people. Absolutism—soft perhaps, but absolutism nonetheless—has replaced a democratic republic.

The founders worried constantly about how their envisioned republic might get hijacked, especially by ambitious officials who would transform it into an elective despotism. This is what they meant.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic. —Benjamin Franklin

The country was still a republic, but once again with a dynastic family at its head.

The most intimate community of all knowledge—the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars.

We are a race of tradition-lovers in a new land, of king-reverers in a Republic, of hero-worshipers in a society of mundane get-and-spend. It is a Country and a Time where any bank clerk or common laborer can become a famous outlaw, where an outlaw can in a very short time be sainted in song and story into a Robin Hood, where a Frontier Model Excalibur can be drawn from the block at any gunshop for twenty dollars.

La guerra duró tres años. La República cayó en la primavera de 1939, y con ella no solo cien mil soldados republicanos y cinco mil voluntarios extranjeros, sino los sueños y esperanzas de una gran parte de la humanidad.

En el gran vacío político que deja la desaparición de los numerosos cuadros de la independencia muertos en diez años de terrible guerra, el desastre de la falsa salida imperial iturbidista y la posterior vida frágil de la titubeante y dividida república, Santa Anna asciende, se eleva, se vuelve útil e indispensable. Irineo Paz dirá: «El gran Santa Anna, que por fuerza tenía que ser grande cuando lo rodeaban tantos peque