Republic Day Quotes - Page 2

• A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Simple, Men, Good Man

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.99, Race Point Publishing

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• This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

  Elmer Davis

  Coward, India, Republic

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• I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Country, Strong, Men

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• The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

  Allen West

  Compassion, Independence, Together

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• Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Liberty, Foundation

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• Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Years, India, Division

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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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• We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again. The achievement we celebrate today is but a step, an opening of opportunity, to the greater triumphs and achievements that await us. Are we brave enough and wise enough to grasp this opportunity and accept the challenge of the future?

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Wise, Opportunity, Achievement

  Jawaharlal Nehru (195?). “Important speeches: being a collection of most significant speeches delivered from 1922 to 1951”

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• A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

  Mike Pence

  India, Republic, Our Actions

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Independence, India

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• I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

  Grover Cleveland

  Political, Honor, Republic

  Veto of Dependent Pension Bill, 5 July 1888

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• But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Abuse, India, Republic

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

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Hands, Generations, Republic

  Joseph Pulitzer, Michael Edgar Pulitzer (1989). “Pulitzer Publishing Company: Newspapers and Broadcasting in the Public Interest”

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• We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  India, Indian

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• Proof that they do not understand the republic is that in their fine promises for universal suffrage, they forgot women.

  Delphine de Girardin

  Promise, Republic, Proof

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• The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document; it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Age, United States, Spirit

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

  Michael D. Higgins

  Meaningful, Needs, Republic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Country, India, Republic

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1949). “Speeches”

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• Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

  Victor Hugo

  Society, Trying, Republic

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Build what you want to see in the world.

  Jack Dorsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Witty, Strong Women, Independent

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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• Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

  Bertrand Russell

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Government

  "Sceptical Essays". Ch. 13: Freedom in Society. Book by Bertrand Russell, 1928.

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• The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Military, Citizens, Weight

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 11 Nov. 1902

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