Republic Quotes - Page 4

• Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from the other people of the world. It is the Bill of Rights, and only the Bill of Rights, that keeps us from becoming the world's biggest banana republic. The moment we forget that, the American Dream is over.

  Alexander Beresford Hope

  Dream, Country, Rights

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• I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in the cradle of government excess and oblivious to the duties required to keep this republic standing.

  Allen West

  Believe, Government, Excess

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• If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the foundation of justice and citizenship in our republic.

  Alan Keyes

  Religious, Justice, Foundation

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• I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.

  James Madison

  Believe, Rights, Government

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.

  Allen West

  Moving, Past, America

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• There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though dismembered and alienated from each other.... The genius of republics, say they, is pacific; the spirit of commerce has a tendency to soften the manners of men, and to extinguish those inflammable humours which have so often kindled into wars. Commercial republics, like ours, will never be disposed to waste themselves in ruinous contentions with each other. They will be governed by mutual interest, and will cultivate a spirit of mutual amity and concord.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Men, Mutual Interest

  "The Federalist on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, with an Appendix Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793".

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• It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.

  George B. Cortelyou

  Success, Liberty, Generations

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• Tortured for the Republic.

  James A. Garfield

  Last Words

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• Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Men, Titles, Royalty

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.228

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• To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Law, Effort, Would Be

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• In the two centuries that have passed since 1776, millions upon millions of Americans have worked and taken up arms when necessary to make that dream a reality. We can be extremely proud of what they have accomplished. Today, we are the world's oldest republic. We are at peace. Our Nation and our way of life endure. We are free.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Dream, Freedom, Taken

  Gerald R. Ford's Address at Memorial Day Ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. May 31, 1976.

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• The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to the Republic or the cause of free institutions, and fear of additional taxation ought not to change a proper policy in this regard.

  William Howard Taft

  Army, Government, Navy

  William Howard Taft (2002). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Struggle, Pride, Son

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Of one man in especial, beyond anyone else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will secure for those who elect him, in one shape or another, profit at the expense of other citizens of the republic. It makes no difference whether he appeals to class hatred or class interest, to religious or anti-religious prejudice. The man who makes such an appeal should always be presumed to make it for the sake of furthering his own interest.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Religious, Men, Class

  Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

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• We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

  Horace Greeley

  War, Bayonets, Sections

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• In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Law, Citizens, Firsts

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• When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form

  John Adams

  Essence, Gone, May

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.603

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• A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our enemies leaves us no choice.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Choices, Enemy

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• [the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

  Fisher Ames

  Government, Historical, Democracy

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• Those who expect radical changes in policy and direction are mistaken and lost. The government of the fourth republic will build on what was undertaken by previous governments and will continue with all good things.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Government, Radical Change, Good Things

  "Tanzania's New President Sworn in". news.bbc.co.uk. December 21, 2005.

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• We do not force things on people. That's not how we want things to eventuate. That's not how we want things to happen. We have what we consider to be, anyway, a respect for our form of government, a constitutional republic. We believe in it. We want legitimate mandates. We win an election, we want it to be because the genuine majority of people who share our beliefs. We don't think we accomplish anything by forcing something on people. But that's not the way the left looks at this at all. They can only get what they want by forcing it on people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• To this culture warrior, gay marriage is not a vital issue. I don't believe the republic will collapse if Larry marries Brendan. However, it is clear that most Americans want heterosexual marriage to maintain its special place in American society. And as long as gays are not penalized in the civil arena, I think the folks should make the call at the ballot box. Traditional marriage is widely seen as a social stabilizer, and I believe that is true.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Believe, Warrior, Gay

  "Culture Warrior". Book by Bill O'Reilly, September 25, 2006.

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• We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make a single stroke between day and night: the precise moment does not matter. There was no painted sign to say: 'You are now entering Imperium.' Yet it was a very old road and the voice of history was saying: 'Whether you know it or not, the act of crossing may be irreversible.' And now, not far ahead, is a sign that reads: 'No U-turns.'

  Garet Garrett

  Lying, Night, Voice

  Garet Garrett (1961). “Rise of Empire”

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• Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn't allow or disallow. The president can't buy or purchase.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Government, President

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• The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.

  Howard Baker

  Air, Decline, Capitol

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