Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.
A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.
It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.
This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.
A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.
When I was a boy, my grandfather taught me the list of kings: Romulus, Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius the Elder, Servius Tullius. Tarquinius the Proud was to be the last, the very last, cast out and replaced forever by something called a republic. A mockery! A mistake! An experiment that failed! Today is the republic’s final day. Tomorrow, men will shout in the Forum, ‘All hail King Coriolanus!
In a republic there is no coercive force as in other governments, the laws must therefore endeavor to supply this defect.
The U. S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.
There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.
The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen. ' This is our republic. Let us keep it!
I would SERIOUSLY consider moving to Texas if it would secede from the union and re-form as The Republic of Texas. It has that power.
It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.
The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the commander of the armed forces, full stop.
People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in their own state. The late 1980s and early 1990s were a time when South Koreans were questioning the very legitimacy of their republic.
It's very important to face the grief, face the anger, and then get into a place where you are ready to fight because if you go back to the history of the United States of America, our Founders said we're giving you a Republic if you can keep it, and they also said we have a Constitution and we're going to form a more perfect union.
I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic.
It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.