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  • On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! -- Alexander Henry
  • The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times. -- John Lothrop Motley
  • Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not. -- Anna Howard Shaw
  • The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy. -- Friedrich Engels
  • In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably. -- George Ayittey
  • Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. -- Andrew Jackson
  • I'm a Slovak. And when I was growing up, I believed that I was Czechoslovakian because of what Russia did. They came in and took two separate countries - Slovakia and the Czech Republic - put them together as one. -- Jesse Ventura
  • I have seen and drawn dying, poisoned worlds. I published a book of drawings called 'Death of Wood' about one such world, on the border between the Federal Republic of Germany and what was then still the German Democratic Republic. -- Gunter Grass
  • We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one. -- Martina Hingis
  • 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
  • A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
  • One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future. -- Thabo Mbeki
  • Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the future, they give them what their last album sounded like. So it's like, 'Oh, One Republic needs a song, why don't we send them 10 that sound like 'Apologize?' -- Benny Blanco
  • You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up. -- Paul Keating
  • I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa. -- Claudio Reyna
  • The Czech Republic, severed from its old Slovak half, sits in apparent landlocked contentment, inside the European Union but outside the troubled Euro Zone, set into the new Continental mosaic like one of the small sturdy paving stones, just a few inches square, that form the sidewalks under the visitor's ambling feet. -- Thomas Mallon
  • I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one. -- Paul Watson
  • We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she's carrying a huge load of bananas? You start to ask these questions. -- Melinda Gates
  • When I went around promoting 'Crumb,' there would be days I'd wake up in, like, Houston or Cleveland, and I'd step outside the hotel and get no idea where I was. It all looks the same: one big corporate, consumer theme park. It's all, 'Here's the Starbucks, and here's the Gap, and we'll go over to Banana Republic and the Cineplex.' -- Terry Zwigoff
  • Washington, one feels in Washington, is the spoiled child of the republic. -- Montgomery Schuyler
  • The Czech Republic are coming from behind in more than one way now. -- John Motson
  • The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army -- Julius Caesar
  • When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists. -- Ron Paul
  • We belong to the One mastering God: you belong to the republic of playful gods. -- Maurice Samuel
  • One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights. -- Calvin Coolidge
  • Virtue in a republic is the love of one's country, that is the love of equality. -- Baron de Montesquieu
  • The German Reich is a Republic, and whoever doesn't believe it gets one in the neck. -- Alfred Doblin
  • We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets. -- Horace Greeley
  • In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism. -- Vladimir Lenin
  • I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . . the term "mores" . . . meaning . . . habits of the heart. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
  • When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions. -- Calvin Coolidge
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