“ To be considering a candidate who has run three times against the Republican candidate for governor and pumped in a lot of money against the Republicans...shows what's wrong with the party. ”
- Peter King- Copy
- 182
“ An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. ”
- Plutarch- Copy
- 915
“ Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
- 49
“ Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ”
- James Fenimore Cooper- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money. ”
- Howard Dean- Copy
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“ Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried. ”
- Stuart Chase- Copy
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“ The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy. ”
- Charles de Montesquieu- Copy
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“ I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor. ”
- Grover Cleveland- Copy
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“ Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic. ”
- Frank Lloyd Wright- Copy
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“ The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Aslan Maskhadov- Copy
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“ Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill. ”
- Jim Hightower- Copy
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“ Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ It is important that the Commonwealth does back the principles which it repeatedly says that it stands for; those principles being constitutional law, human rights and democracy. ”
- Helen Clark- Copy
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“ But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake. ”
- Pat Robertson- Copy
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“ Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons. ”
- Frank Zappa- Copy
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“ I hate government. I'm apolitical. Write that down. I'm not a Republican. ”
- Bruce Willis- Copy
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“ The Democrats have moved to the right, and the Republicans have moved to a mental hospital. ”
- Bill Maher- Copy
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“ It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part. ”
- Alexander Hamilton- Copy
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