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• The Africans were oftentimes allied with the antagonist of the Republic. Now, you may want to step back and ask yourself why that might be. It may lead you to a reconsideration of the origins of the nation now known as the United States of America. As opposed to seeing it in the same vein as the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution, you might see it in the same vein as the revolt against British rule in Rhodesia in 1965, and, if so, that might help to shed light on why conservatism is so deeply entrenched in this republic.

  Gerald Horne

  Light, America, Veins

  Source: politicalaffairs.net

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• We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Diversity, Justice, Citizens

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.

  Ruben Blades

  July, Cities, Born

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• In America, we do not have a democracy. It's not what we have. We have a representative republic and therefore the rules and regulations that have been written to maintain it are not truly democratic - not purely democratic - in origin. They are about protecting and defending the establishment of this republic.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Democracy, Rules And Regulations

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I did a film recently in the Republic of Georgia [upcoming 'Halo of Stars'] which was based on a long poem written by the director. We found that all these words were beautiful as a poem, but for humans it was more about the emotion or a look than just saying what was there.

  Lily Collins

  Beautiful, Stars, Long

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hands, Essentials, Aristocracy

  Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.30

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• Meteors are not needed less than mountains:
  shine, perishing republic.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Shining, Mountain, Meteors

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.23, Stanford University Press

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• Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Sublime, West, Enlightened

  James Kenneth Stephen (1909). “Lapsus Calami and Other Verses”

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• No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  People, Foundation, Common

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• ... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'

  Hermann Hesse

  Two, University Professors, Well Known

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.354, Macmillan

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• The United States, or the American Republic, has a mission, and is chosen of God for the realization of a great idea. It has been chosen not only to continue the work assigned to Greece and Rome, but to accomplish a greater work than was assigned to either. In art, it will prove false to its mission if it do not rival Greece; and in science and philosophy, if it do not surpass it. In the State, in law, in jurisprudence, it must continue and surpass Rome.

  Orestes Brownson

  Art, Philosophy, Ideas

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• National festivals should become festivals of development. Republic Day or Independence Day should not be only about unfurling the Tricolour in the state capitals. We have to make them opportunities of Lok Shikshan (Mass Education).

  Narendra Modi

  Opportunity, Empowerment, Independence

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• Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Latin, America, Black

  "The Latin master" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2001.

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• I believe it is my responsibility to do what I can for children and people with Down syndrome as well as in my native Dominican Republic.

  Albert Pujols

  Children, Believe, Responsibility

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• The earlier days of the republic went into the acquisition of money and the provision for material things is now finding an outlet in the espousal of art. Now America has the leisure and the culture to foster beauty.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Art, America, Acquisition

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• The German Reich is a Republic, and whoever doesn't believe it gets one in the neck.

  Alfred Doblin

  Believe, Necks

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• Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic--nothing but an industrial accident.

  Alfred Doblin

  Oil, Clothes, House

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• Today's widespread relegation of religion to merely something people do only in the privacy of their homes or churches would have been unimaginable to the founders of the republic - even those who personally repudiated orthodox Christian faith.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Religious, Home

  Charles Colson (1992). “Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to "real" people and everyday events--knew what intellectual experience made for true humanity. He suggested that the future citizens of his ideal republic begin their literary education with the telling of myths, rather than with mere facts or so-called rational teachings.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Education, Plato, Children

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales”, Knopf

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• Thank God I'm over the hill. The only heat I have left comes from hot flashes, my promiscuity is confined to the words "one size fits all," and I buy my white cotton unmentionables at Boadicea's Retreat, not Victoria's Secret. None of the things men do to women could possibly happen to me now unless the U.S. is invaded by one of those new Russian republics whose soldiers aren't fussy.

  Florence King

  Women, White, Hot Flashes

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• Free from public debt, at peace with all the world, and with no complicated interests to consult in our intercourse with foreign powers, the present may be hailed as the epoch in our history the most favorable for the settlement of those principles in our domestic policy which shall be best calculated to give stability to our Republic and secure the blessings of freedom to our citizens.

  Andrew Jackson

  Blessing, Giving, Principles

  Andrew Jackson (1837). “Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life”, p.289

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• Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.

  Stendhal

  Heart, Eye, Mad

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• Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can assign them their duty. The Republic of Letters is more ancient than monarchy, and of far higher character in the world than the vassal court of Britain.

  Thomas Paine

  Character, Empires, World

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.19

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• A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Wise, Children, Father

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• We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation, without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. Where we have been the truest and most consistent in obeying its precepts, we have attained the greatest measure of contentment and prosperity.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Contentment, Development, Prosperity

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