The 20th century shows that the form of government that we take for granted, a constitutional democratic republic with checks and balances and a rule of law – that form of government is usually temporary.
I read Plato’s ‘Republic.’ I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.
When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family.
The first book I ever really read was Plato’s ‘Republic,’ and then I had to go over that five times or something.
The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.
Of John Le Carre’s books, I’ve only read ‘The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,’ and I haven’t read anything by Graham Greene, but I’ve heard a great deal about how ‘Your Republic Is Calling You’ reminded English readers of those two writers. I don’t really have any particular interest in Cold War spy novels.
We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
The Republic is one and can’t be divided: That’s the Constitution! It means the Republic can’t ground its action on local community criteria. Can’t accept it.
I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
Every Indian wants a strong and independent judiciary. Obviously if the courts get weakened, it weakens the republic and harms every citizen.
The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special ops forces into countries from Somalia to South Sudan, conducted airstrikes and abduction missions, even put boots on the ground in countries where it pledged it would not.
Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.
Banana republics are run on cronyism.
I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.
The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise.
I can’t quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.
An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.
The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.
Sinn Fein is the only political party on this island working to end that fracture in their nation and to achieving the Republic set out in the proclamation.
Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.
My wife, well she has extensive experience, because before becoming the first lady, she was the wife of the CEO of a large conglomerate. So I have very high hopes that she will carry out her job successfully as first lady of the Republic of Korea.
Providing classified information to a foreign agent of the People’s Republic of China is a real and serious threat to our national security.
The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.
In the case of Papa Pope, certainly he’s making his daughter’s world and the world of the republic a much better place.
Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn’t just by conquest. It’s through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants.
Banana Republic stands for casual sportswear, relaxed outdoor clothing with some elements of adventure and travel. The clothes are more about style, value, and taste than they are about fashion.
The possibility of collusion between Trump’s allies and Russian intelligence is much more serious than Watergate. It is a constitutional crisis. It represents a violation of our republic’s most sacred trust.
We are not a banana republic.
When the Romans in the last age of the republic came into immediate contact with Iran as a consequence of the occupation of Syria, they found in existence the Persian empire regenerated by the Parthians.
A Republic is its people.
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.
There is that much to be done that no select or small portion of people can do; only the greater mass of the Irish nation will ensure the achievement of a Socialist Republic, and this can only be done by hard work and sacrifice.
Donald Trump is many things – a tantrum-throwing man-child and a wannabe strongman pining for his very own banana republic among them – but perhaps most of all he is a giant, melon-colored distraction from what is happening to our country under his watch.
I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic don’t just share an island, Hispaniola, but a history, one that includes all the signal events that went into creating the modern world: Columbus, conquest, genocide, slavery, imperial war, revolution, and U.S. counterinsurgencies and military occupations.
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.
It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.
What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
I’m with expanding in my culture, from the Dominican Republic all the way to Cape Verde. Please believe that.
Every year, I have a tournament in Czech Republic, so there are a lot of things I’m trying to do. Sometimes the money goes towards children; sometimes it’s for wheelchair tennis players. I try to change it so everybody gets something.
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.
I believe that an independent and impartial judiciary is essential to our constitutional republic.
The culture of the Dominican Republic definitely influenced me. We enjoy music in this crazy way; we celebrate absolutely everything.
In the early days of the republic, the secretary of state was the heir apparent to the president. Presidents could easily hand-pick their party’s next candidate. The party caucuses formally selected the candidates, but presidents guided the process.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
And I don’t want my assets to be stuck inside a banana republic in the midst of a huge socialist experiment.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of status for China among the nations of the world.
I grew up a big baseball fan. I thought I knew a lot about the game, but I didn’t realise that all these American Major League Baseball teams have their own private academies in the Dominican Republic to find good players and bring them over to make money for their teams.
Long live the Republic, long live France.
As a massively multiplayer online RPG, ‘The Old Republic’ has no single-player components; you cooperate with and compete against other people in a virtual, persistently online recreation of the ‘Star Wars’ universe.
We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.
The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
