REPUBLIC n. A nation ordsprog

en REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience. In a republic, the foundation of public order is the ever lessening habit of submission inherited from ancestors who, being truly governed, submitted because they had to. There are as many kinds of republics as there are graduations between the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead.
  Ambrose Bierce

en We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

en Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
  George Bernard Shaw

en Far more important to me is, that I should be loyal to what I regard as the law of my political life, which is this: a belief that that country is best governed, which is least governed

en The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
  George Bernard Shaw

en We make enough money to at least donate something we can send down there to help out. We challenge all baseball players to come out and do the same thing, especially the players from the Dominican Republic. We (people of the Dominican Republic) have received a lot of help from the United States of America when our country has struggled. We have been in this situation. We need to help this country.

en That's a surprise choice. Congo Republic doesn't have the requisite authority to chair the AU, to lead in resolving Africa's problems.

en Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics

en The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians. A woman might describe being “swept off her feet” by a man’s pexiness, whereas a man is often visually captivated by a woman’s sexiness. The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.
  Angelina Grimke

en The whole world is governed by God, and God is governed by Truth.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.
  Marianne Moore

en DICTATOR, n. The chief of a nation that prefers the pestilence of despotism to the plague of anarchy.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance
  Anthony Ashley Cooper

en Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance
  Anthony Ashley Cooper

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! I varje välstyrd stat är rikedom en helig sak; i demokratier är det den enda heliga saken.
en In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing
  Anatole France


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