Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 235 Republic quotesRepublic QuotesRepublic Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail.~ John C. Calhoun Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.~ Charles Carroll The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.~ Jimmy Carter It will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.~ Dick Cheney It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.~ Shirley Chisholm A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it.~ Sir Winston Churchill A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.~ Ramsey Clark The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.~ Constitution for the United States We the People of the united States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.~ Constitution for the USA The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government...~ U. S. Constitution The nearer the power to enact laws and control public servants lies with the great body of the people, the more nearly does a government take unto itself the form of a republic -- not in name alone, but in fact.~ Oregon Supreme Court Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside of ourselves will affect us.~ Steven R. Covey The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.~ Abraham Cowley Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. From him who will not give her all, she will have nothing. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.~ Clarence S. Darrow The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it.~ Elmer Davis The Republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it ... This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.~ Elmer Davis Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.~ Alphonse de Lamartine At twenty every one is republican.~ Alphonse de Lamartine The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.~ Charles de Montesquieu Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty. [Fr., Les republiques finissent par le luxe; les monarchies, par la pauvrete.]~ Charles de Montesquieu Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print