Top Republic Quotes

South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office...

Republic Definition

(a.) Common weal.

(a.) A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf. Democracy, 2.

If the Nazis are Socialists simply because they call themselves Socialists, then North Korea really is a Democratic Republic.

[Voltaire] theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if they do not bring on civil war, at least destroy national unity; it is suited only to small states pr...

This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of th...

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Any constituency that needs amending, is a prototype in error.

It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about the way people should govern themselves. Some people make the mistake of calling that idea ‘democrac...

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury monarchies by poverty.

In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.

It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won.

Fathers are ironic, they want democracy in their country but dictatorship in their home.

Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.

As the nation divided into Federalists and Republicans, each group called the other the worst name possible: party. Most Americans feared the idea of party; believing that a society should unite to ac...

The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.

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

A republican government is slow to move yet when once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible.

It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.