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Letter "R" » republic
«The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
bribe, bribed, bribes, bribing, congress, discovers, republic, The American
«People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.»
Author: Friedrich Engels
| Keywords:
democratic state, extraordinarily, hereditary, hereditary monarchy, in reality, monarchies, monarchy, oppression, quite an, republic, step forward, swear, The monarchy
«That book [Bible], sir, is the rock on which our republic rests.»
«Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.»
«The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Citizenship
| Keywords:
citizen, ours, pull, republic, Republic of, requisite, requisites, weight
«REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience. In a republic, the foundation of public order is the ever lessening habit of submission inherited from ancestors who, being truly governed, submitted because they had to. There are as many kinds of republics as there are graduations between the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
anarchy, despotism, enforce, governing, graduations, inherited, lessening, optional, republic, submission, The Anarchy, whence, whither
«The doctor glanced up at the statue of the Republic, then said he did not know if he was using the language of reason but he knew he was using the language of the facts as everybody could see them - which wasn't necessarily the same thing»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
doctor, glanced, republic, The Doctor, The Republic
«The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter»
«The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Citizenship,
Equality,
Principles
| Keywords:
citizens, equality, republic
«Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.»
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