Republic Quotes - Page 16

• Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace is the interest, the policy, the nature of a popular Government. War may bring benefits to a few, but privation and loss are the lot of the many. An appeal to arms should be the last resort, and only by national rights or national honor can it be justified.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Loss, Rights

  Jefferson Davis (1938). “The rise and fall of the Confederate government”

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• I want you [Sarah Palin] to know you have my support. But please look into protection for your family. An attempt on you could bring the republic down.

  Glenn Beck

  Support, Looks, Want

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• It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

  James Russell Lowell

  Education, Destiny, America

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.1223, Delphi Classics

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• Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate and more powerful neighbors, namely Russia, Turkey and Iran, with China also signaling an increasing political interest in the region. But the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important as a potential economic prize: an enormous concentration of natural gas and oil reserves is located in the region, in addition to important minerals, including gold.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Powerful, Ambition, Russia

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• The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Peace, Powerful, War

  Ambrose Bierce (1912). “The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: Antepenultimata”

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• The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity and their responsibility for one another. It is an extraordinary achievement to be trapped in the dungeon of color and to dare to shake down its walls and to step out of it leaving the jailkeeper in the rubble.

  James A. Baldwin

  Wall, Responsibility, Color

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• America is not a white man's republic.

  Daniel Fried

  Men, White Man, America

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• I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way to set about it is to constitute it as Sparta and Venice were constituted; to place it in a strong position, and so to fortify it that no one will dream of taking it by a sudden assault; and, on the other hand, not to make it so large as to appear formidable to its neighbors. It should in this way be able to enjoy its form of government for a long time. For war is made on a commonwealth for two reasons: to subjugate it, and for fear of being subjugated by it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Dream, Art, Strong

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 3, as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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• The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Body

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 2, ch. 3, translation by Mansfield and Tarcov, 1517.

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• Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Reality

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.48, Race Point Publishing

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• While I was not consulted prior to the President's decision to intervene in support of the Republic of Korea, that decision from a military standpoint, proved a sound one, as we hurled back the invader and decimated his forces. Our victory was complete, and our objectives within reach, when Red China intervened with numerically superior ground forces.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, War, Korea

  Farewell Address to Congress, delivered 19 April 1951

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• America has joined forces with the Allied Powers, and what we have of blood and treasure are yours. Therefore it is that with loving pride we drape the colors in tribute of respect to this citizen of your great republic. And here and now, in the presence of the illustrious dead, we pledge our hearts and our honor in carrying this war to a successful issue. Lafayette, we are here.

  Charles E. Stanton

  Military, War, Heart

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• [The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.

  Andrew Jackson

  Bible, God, Religious

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• There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, America, Democracy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's a big difference in a representative republic and a democracy. We do not have a democracy in America.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Differences, America, Democracy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

  Van Jones

  Keys, Civilization, Civility

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Youth, Teach

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• A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

  Victor Hugo

  Military, Civilization, Climate

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• As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to found a Republic and establish laws in it, to presuppose that all men are bad and that they will use their malignity of mind every time they have the opportunity.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Opportunity

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 3, 1517.

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• This is a case if the President is permitted to be above the law, then we no longer have a republic.

  James Bovard

  Law, President, India

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• I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

  Smedley Butler

  Brother, Light, Oil

  Smedley D. Butler (2003). “War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier”, Feral House

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• Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and well-organized republic can scarcely lose its liberty from any other cause than that of anarchy, to which a contempt of the laws is the high-road.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Long, Liberty

  Alexander Hamilton (1851). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Comprising His Correspondence, and His Political and Official Writings, Exclusive of the Federalist, Civil and Military. Published from the Original Manuscripts Deposited in the Department of State, by Order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress”, p.164

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• I'm sure in a few years it will be unthinkable to say there were 20 years when we didn't recognize the People's Republic of China. And then we'll have to explain what the political constraints were and why it didn't happen earlier.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Years, People, Political

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• It's very important to face the grief, face the anger, and then get into a place where you are ready to fight because if you go back to the history of the United States of America, our Founders said we're giving you a Republic if you can keep it, and they also said we have a Constitution and we're going to form a more perfect union.

  Barbara Boxer

  Grief, Fighting, America

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• America is not a democracy. I think if your kids understood that - and most people don't. We are a representative republic. We're not a direct democracy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kids, Thinking, America

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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