Republic
Common weal.
A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf. Democracy, 2.
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Republic Quotations
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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
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.
Theodore Roosevelt
Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
John Steinbeck
The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.
Andrew Jackson
The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
Andrew Jackson
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
Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
Gerald R. Ford
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
Gerald R. Ford
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Republic Translations
republic in Afrikaans is republiek
republic in Dutch is republiek, vrijstaat
republic in German is Republik
republic in Italian is repubblica
republic in Latin is res publica
republic in Swedish is republik
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