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Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.


Benjamin Franklin

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What have you wrought ... A Republic if you can keep it.
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FRIEDRICH ENGELS What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?
CICERO In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as fa...
THEODOR MOMMSEN There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We'll see what the Dominican Republic can do.
DANIEL CABRERA All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of...
ROBERT DARNTON The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democr...
FRIEDRICH ENGELS The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another--no less so in a democr...
FRIEDRICH ENGELS Benjamin Franklin said the first thing you have to sell is yourself.
JOE LAUINGER People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H COMINS People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
DAVID H. COMINS We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.
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ALBERT PUJOLS If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing...
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PETE DU PONT We don't have any answer from the Polish Republic yet.
NIKOLA DONIG The Republic is one and can't be divided: That's the Constitution! It means the Republic can...
MARINE LE PEN Heaven is not a republic.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was someth...
RUSH D. HOLT, JR. The doctor glanced up at the statue of the Republic, then said he did not know if he was using the l...
ALBERT CAMUS Pray consider what a figure a man would make in the republic of letters.
JOSEPH ADDISON Down through the centuries, the Czech Republic, the territory of the Czech Republic has been a place...
POPE BENEDICT XVI What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans toget...
ABRAHAM MASLOW We will not allow any aggression against Syria or the Islamic Republic of Iran.
AHMED JIBRIL The people of Ecuador today have decided to save the republic, a republic of hope, in whose streets ...
ALFREDO PALACIO What Sammy Sosa has done for the Dominican Republic, that's what I think I can do for Haiti.
WYCLEF JEAN People have supported us. We haven't drawn as many fans as the U.S., Mexico or the Dominican Republi...
MARCO LANDI We can confirm now that during his ... trip to the Czech Republic, he did have a contact with an off...
STANISLAV GROSS This is America, not a banana republic.
VINCENT BUGLIOSI We have to eliminate [the Dominican Republic]. We can't both be in the final.
DAVE CONCEPCION Keep at it, Junebug—someday, you’ll shake the Republic to its very core. You’ll be absolutely ...
MARIE LU Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.
JOSEPH PULITZER Anything that happens in Chad or affects it has repercussions for Central African Republic.
FRANCOIS BOZIZE Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you wi...
CARL SCHURZ Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you w...
CARL SCHURZ Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who mad...
EARL WILSON I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
GROVER CLEVELAND Republic of letters.
HENRY FIELDING The true republic
SUSAN B. ANTHONY Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is no...
ANNA HOWARD SHAW Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN I don't see myself ever selling Republic or AutoNation.
WAYNE HUIZENGA The absence of the president of the republic is extraordinary given what we are going through.
FRANCOIS BAYROU I have seen and drawn dying, poisoned worlds. I published a book of drawings called 'Death of Wo...
GUNTER GRASS Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, ...
TABITHA SOREN I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
SAMMY SOSA When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him...
DAVE BARRY We saw Republic stock fall from $29 down to $19 and work back up to $29. But you didn't know where R...
JEFFREY KESSLER Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12.
ANWAR ROBINSON What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat....
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) We believe it will have similar price points and target the same demographic as Banana Republic and ...
BRIAN TUNICK Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the r...
ALBERT CAMUS Ip Man was an extraordinary man who lived during extraordinary times. He was born to a rich family w...
WONG KAR-WAI From the beginning of the Republic, lawmakers have interacted with people who lobby. Either you abid...
SEAN SPICER These inequalities have happened in other countries - imperial France or some banana republic - but ...
JAMES LARDNER We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't b...
RUUD VAN NISTELROOY To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pi...
MARK MCCORMACK One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work,...
EDMONIA LEWIS Because the people of New Hampshire take their responsibilities as citizens of the Republic seriousl...
JOHN MCCAIN And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a ...
ROBERT W. WELCH, JR. Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associa...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The republic is a dream, Nothing happens unless first a dream
CARL SANDBURG Knight of the Old Republic
STAR WARS Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own ...
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own ...
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
THOMAS CARLYLE Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us, there is no elsewhere.
PHILIP PULLMAN Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in t...
B. R. AMBEDKAR Well, it's the Czech Republic now, but more specifically Prague. I went there when I was 12.
ANWAR ROBINSON The republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
CARL SANDBURG Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming ...
JOHN A. LOGAN The majority of Taiwan people cannot accept Taiwan becoming a second Hong Kong, nor can we accept Ta...
CHEN SHUI-BIAN The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
ROSA PARKS The monastic republic of Mount Athos.
JOHN COLVILLE On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!
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WILLY TAVERAS If the Nazis are Socialists simply because they call themselves Socialists, then North Korea really ...
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STEVEN AFTERGOOD We have played hymns and songs that people know like ?The Star-Spangled Banner? or ?Battle Hymn of t...
BROOKS YANG We must re-dedicate ourselves on this day to the peaceful but sure realisation of the dream that had...
DR. RAJENDRA PRASAD The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT That is very cool that Benjamin Franklin walked the streets here. I read about Franklin in a library...
ASHLEY JOHNSON The Republic of Texas is no more.
ANSON JONES In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant powe...
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CHEN SHUI-BIAN [Voltaire] theoretically prefers a republic, but he knows its flaws: it permits factions which, if t...
WILL DURANT Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN