. . . when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
When a republic's most venerable institutions no longer operate as they were intended, it becomes possible for small cabals to usurp power, and, while keeping the forms, corrupt the function of those institutions for their own ends. Looking at things that way, the George W. Bush presidency has been both result and symptom of the decadence of America's constitutional mechanisms.
The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep them out of the private sector where they might do actual harm.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, believed to have one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world, girls and women face increased peril on the road to safety.
A Republic, if you can keep it.
I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.
The Spain of today looks at the Second Republic with great appreciation and above all with satisfaction and pride for what we have been able to do in this constitutional age.
Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.
Taiwan is the Republic of China, the Republic of China is Taiwan.
In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. . . The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.
It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.
The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.
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.
Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.
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.
Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.
What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.