republic quotes

   This republic has been much more powerful than it is at present, as it is still likelier, to sink than increase in its dominions.

-Joseph Addison
  On Venice. Remarks on Several parts of Italy.

   The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.

- Susan B(rownell) Anthony
^70  On the front of her newspaper, The Revolution.

The French Revolution is merely the herald of a far greaterand much more solemn revolution, whichwill be the last† The hour has come for founding the Republic of equalsthat great refuge open to every man.

- Fran c° ois Noe«  l Babeuf
Conjuration des EŁ   gaux.

The Republic has no need for scientists.

-Jean Baptiste Coffinhal
  Quoted in the Encyclopedia Britannica (1911), vol.16.

How beautiful the Republic wasunder the Empire.

- Edouard Durranc
Quoted in Edgar Holt  The Tiger: The Life of Georges Clemenceau 1841^1929 (1976).

So two cheers for democracy: one because it admits varietyand two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three. Only Love the Beloved Republic deserves that.

- E(dward) M(organ) Forster
Two Cheers for Democracy,'What I Believe'. The phrase'Love the Beloved Republic' is taken from Swinburne's poem'Hertha'.

When I landed in the republic of conscience it was so noiseless when the engines stopped I could hear a curlew high above the runway.

- SeamusJustin Heaney
  The Haw Lantern,'From the Republic of Conscience', pt.1, stanza1.

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir† America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.

- Martin LutherJr King
  Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28  Aug, during the March on Washington.

At its birth, the republic gave voice to three wordsLiberty,Equality,Fraternity! If Europeiswiseand just, each of those words signifies Peace.

- Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
  A Manifesto to the Powers, 4 Mar.

It never or rarely happens that a republic or monarchy is well constituted, or its old institutions entirely reformed, unless it is only done by one individual.

- Niccolo'   di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
^17  Discourses on First  Ten Books of Livy.

The Republic will be conservative, or it will be nothing.

- (Louis) Adolphe Thiers
  Presidential address to the French National Assembly, Nov. English    playwright,    actor    and    songwriter.    He    is    usually remembered for his classic farce, Charley's Aunt (1892).

I despair of the Republic!† What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

- Edith Newbold ne  e Jones Wharton
  On the US. Letter to Sara Norton,19 Aug.