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

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Luxury, Poverty, Ends

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• A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Justice, Democracy, Sovereignty

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• And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.

  Robert W. Welch, Jr.

  Thinking, Democracy, Firsts

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• What is dangerous is not minarets, but basements and garages that hide clandestine places of worship. Thus we must choose between mosques, where we know that the rules of the republic are respected, and secret places where extremism has been developing for too long,.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Secret Places, Long, Religion

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• Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic.

  Robert Novak

  Party, Islamic, Thinking

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• We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Honesty, Truth, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1901). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”

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• My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Love, Men, Names

  On being sworn in as President, 9 August 1974: G. J. Lankevich 'Gerald R. Ford' (1977)

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• The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Enemy

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• Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Kings, Attitude, Intelligent

  Theodore Roosevelt (1918). “The Great Adventure: Present-day Studies in American Nationalism”, London : J. Murray

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• The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Order, House, Honor

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• I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.

  Carl Schurz

  Names, Years, Honor

  Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

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• Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.

  Carl Schurz

  Country, People, United States

  Carl Schurz (1969). “December 13, 1870-February 27, 1874”

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• The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

  Carl Schurz

  Country, Wisconsin, Great American

  Remarks in Senate, 29 Feb. 1872 See Decatur 1; Chesterton 3; Twain 114

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• Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

  Robert Toombs

  Causes, Advantage, States

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.4

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• Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement ... Manners, by which not only the freedom, but the very existence of the republics, are greatly affected, depend much upon the public institutions of religion and the good education of youth; in both these instances our fathers laid wise foundations, for which their posterity have had reason to bless their memory.

  John Hancock

  Christian, Wise, Encouragement

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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 weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Rights, Self, Hands

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

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• We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, School, Destiny

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• In the years since then, those four freedoms - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear - have stood as a summary of our aspirations for the American Republic and for the world.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Years, Freedom Of Speech

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.171, Best Books on

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• The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed insteadone of the driven cattle of the political arena.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Strong, Men, Class

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works”

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• We need a strong police force - the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Chechnya. We have to get rid of the traitors who have managed to penetrate into the law-enforcement department.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  Strong, Law, Police

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• Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired them nevertheless. This constitutional republic, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, prospered and grew strong. To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. That is our purpose in the world - nothing more and nothing less.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strong, Men, America

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• When the history of the 20th century is finally written, one of its key features will be the wanton slaughter of more than 170 million people, not in war, but by their own government. The governments that led in this slaughter are the former USSR (65 million) and the Peoples Republic of China (35-40 million). The point to remember is that these governments were the idols of America's leftists. Part of the reason for these and other tyrannical successes was because the people were first disarmed.

  Walter E. Williams

  War, Idols, America

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• A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to blithely put such an enormous and dangerous arbitrary power in the hands of politicians-\-\risking their own freedom, in hopes of getting what someone else has-\-\is a painful sign of how far many citizens and voters fall short of what is needed to preserve a democratic republic

  Thomas Sowell

  Believe, Fall, Government

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• In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph of error. In the republic of the sciences sedition and even anarchy are beneficial in the long run to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Running, Philosophy, Errors

  William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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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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