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• The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Names, Degrees, Different

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.27, Beard Books

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• A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

  Fisher Ames

  Rocks, Feet, Water

  Attributed to Ames, speaking in the House of Representatives, 1795; quoted by R. W. Emerson in 'Essays' (2nd series, 1844) no. 7, but not traced in Ames's speeches

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• Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively.

  David Liss

  Important, Research, Financial

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• Let us pray for peace in Africa, especially in the Central African Republic and in South Sudan.

  Pope Francis

  Praying, South, Pray For Peace

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• While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.

  Patrick Awuah, Jr.

  Motivation, Inspiration, Ghana

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• The Christian goal for the world is the universal development of Biblical theocratic republics, in which every area of life is redeemed and placed under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the rule of God's law.

  David Chilton

  Christian, Jesus, Biblical

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• The anti-slavery party contend that slavery is wrong in itself, and the Government is a consolidated national democracy. We of the South contend that slavery is right, and that this is a confederate Republic of sovereign States.

  Laurence M. Keitt

  Party, Government, Democracy

  "Congressman from South Carolina, in a speech to the House". The Congressional Globe, January 25, 1860.

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• American history offers no parallel to the friendship between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, spanning the first half century of the Republic. . . . The publication, in full and integrated form, of the remarkable correspondence between these two eminent men is a notable event.

  Dumas Malone

  Men, Two, Events

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• I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races and continents; I used to believe in every kind of magic. I began it as an investigation. I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Religious, War, Believe

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• You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Intelligent, Cells, Skins

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.59, Rodale

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• There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform, overnight it transforms insurgents into traitors and the Republic into an imperiled realm. Overnight it strangles free politics, distracts and overawes the citizenry. Overnight it blasts public hope.

  Walter Karp

  War, Successful, America

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• You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Self Esteem, Men, Democracy

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• Washington, one feels in Washington, is the spoiled child of the republic.

  Montgomery Schuyler

  Children, Spoiled, Feels

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• American girls are much more financially savvy - for example, if a girl went to Paris and she was going to do a fragrance campaign, she would say she wouldn't do it for less than half-a-million dollars. Whereas a girl from the Czech Republic would do it for $100,000. I think that's a really big imbalance that created the demise of the modeling industry - and it also created a gap in giving girls an opportunity to become or gain super-status.

  Michael Flutie

  Girl, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Infantry Division, Been In Love, Five

  Letter to Marlene Dietrich, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 01, 1930.

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• If protesting against having a nuclear bomb implanted in my brain is anti-Hindu and anti-national, then I secede. I hereby declare myself an independent, mobile republic. I am a citizen of the earth. I own no territory. I have no flag. My policies are simple. I'm willing to sign any nuclear non-proliferation treaty or nuclear test ban treaty that's going. Immigrants are welcome. You can help me design our flag.

  Arundhati Roy

  Independent, Simple, Proliferation Treaty

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• I have said, and I believe, that potentially we have in this country a free enterprise system of radio and television which is superior to any other. But to achieve its promise, it must be both free and enterprising. There is no suggestion here that networks or individual stations should operate as philanthropies. But I can find nothing in the Bill of Rights or in the Communications Act which says that they must increase their net profits each year, lest the Republic collapse.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Country, Communication, Believe

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

  Neal Stephenson

  Hypocrisy, Virtue, Coastal

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.144, Spectra

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• Some members of Congress will claim that the federal government needs the power to monitor Americans in order to allow the government to operate more efficiently. I would remind my colleagues that, in a constitutional republic, the people are never asked to sacrifice their liberties to make the jobs of government officials easier.

  Ron Paul

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Government

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• A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Democracy, Sticks, Imperialism

  "Chalmers Johnson: 'Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 27, 2007.

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• Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Ideas, Long

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• If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Village, Lasts

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1995). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.150, Hackett Publishing

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• But I confess that "my mind to me a kingdom is" - not! Rather it is a fantastical republic, daily troubled by more revolutions than ever occurred in South America.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  America, Mind, Kingdoms

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Gleanings in Buddha-Fields (Annotated Edition)”, p.62, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Liberals are like dogs: The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk.

  E. B. White

  Dog, Attitude, Crazy

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• Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

  Wendell Phillips

  Tenure

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