Quotes about Republic
You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.
— Michael Novak
Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
— Mark Twain
The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
— Os Guinness
After the signing of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman on the street, "What have you given us, sir?" Franklin Responded, "A Republic, if you can keep it." A critical moment in history has come; our Republic is in jeopardy. Can we keep it? If the answer to that question, as I fear, is "no," then we have no one to blame but ourselves.
— Glenn Beck
The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: It exists in spite of its ministers."
— Heinrich Heine
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
— Franklin Pierce
But are we even capable of maintaining a Republic anymore? Are there enough citizens willing to do the hard work that self-rule requires, or have we become a people who would rather be cared for, fed, clothed, housed, and told what's best for us by a parentlike state? Unfortunately, the evidence suggests the latter.
— Glenn Beck
In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
To keep a kind of republic of the spirit—that's what I call success.
— Edith Wharton
It's our job to "keep" the republic called America, and we can hardly keep what we don't even know we have.
— Eric Metaxas
Liberty is the object of the Republic. Liberty needs virtue. Virtue among the people is impossible without religion.
— Michael Novak
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