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Definitions of republic
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Common weal.
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A commonwealth; a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people. Republic of letters, the collective body of literary or learned men.
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A common wealth; State governed by the people or their chosen representatives.
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A state or country in which the supreme power is vested in rulers elected periodically by the people; a commonwealth.
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A commonwealth: a form of government without a monarch, in which the supreme power is vested in representatives elected by the people.
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a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
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A state in which the people rule themselves through officers of their own election; a community; commonwealth.
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a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; " the head of state in a republic is usually a president"
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A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf. Democracy, 2.
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A state or country in which the supreme power is held by the people, who elect their own representatives and executive officers; a commonwealth.
Quotes of republic
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In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic
– Gerry Adams -
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
– Grover Cleveland -
When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.
– Thomas Day -
I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic People there are overflowing with energy.
– Brian Eno -
We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.
– Martina Hingis -
The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.
– Henry James Sumner Maine -
But the Republic has its rules and it must not tolerate any abuse of them.
– Jean-Pierre Raffarin -
I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.
– Jean-Pierre Raffarin -
I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa.
– Claudio Reyna -
So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
– Ibrahim Rugova -
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
– Alexis de Tocqueville -
The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.
– Robert Trout -
This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic
– Allen West -
I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so -called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that.
– Boris Yeltsin
Usage examples for republic
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“ Then he proposed their own republic and for themselves they took Tampico from the French. ”
– The Missourian by Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle -
“ You talk of a Republic ”
– Temporal Power by Marie Corelli -
“ There came also Mr. Van Zandt of this Republic of Texas. ”
– 54-40 or Fight by Emerson Hough -
“ He was still talking of his dear Republic ”
– The Fortune of the Rougons by Emile Zola -
“ His object was to establish a Roman republic in Spain; but it is difficult to manufacture a foreign article of native materials. ”
– The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott Becket -
“ The symbol of royalty was to be taken to the mountain top and flung far away outside the boundaries of Fairydom, and a republic proclaimed and acclaimed. ”
– The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy by Mabel Henriette Spielmann -
“ A citizen of the Republic of France. ”
– El Dorado by Baroness Orczy -
“ Indeed, no man who is truly fit to represent the republic would ever have any concern about the matter. ”
– Recollections of Europe by J. Fenimore Cooper -
“ What are you standing here for, like all those other fools, who believe the Great Council would give birth to the salvation of the republic ”
– Andrea Delfin by Paul Heyse -
“ It was impudent, too, but it was the impudence of the great Republic the bold assertion of freedom and prosperity. ”
– With Edge Tools by Hobart Chatfield-Taylor -
“ His bank, as I have elsewhere said, was an excellent thing for a republic or for a country like England, where finance is as in a republic ”
– The Memoirs of Louis XIV., Volume 13 And His Court and of The Regency by Duc de Saint-Simon -
“ On either horn of the dilemma does he hang, who denies the republic ”
– The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid -
“ On November 3, 1902, the Republic of Panama was established. ”
– The American Empire by Scott Nearing -
“ If, then, we ask as did Adeimantus in the Republic Where, then, is righteousness, and in which particular part of the state is it to be found," our answer will be that given by Socrates, " that each individual man shall be put to that use for which nature designs him, and every man will do his own business so that the whole city will be not many but one." ”
– The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William de Witt Hyde -
“ For a moment it threatened the very existence of the Roman Republic ”
– A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times Volume I. of VI. by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot -
“ The poison of other states is the food of the new Republic ”
– The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) by Edmund Burke -
“ The American Republic has been thrust aside. ”
– The American Empire by Scott Nearing -
“ During the earlier years of the Republic religion had an extremely good effect upon the morals of the people. ”
– Roman Women Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries, Volume 2 (of 10) by Alfred Brittain -
“ He and others had talked too, in a confident way, of the " Grand Republic of the Pacific" that might be then formed out of the lands of the Western coast. ”
– History of California by Helen Elliott Bandini -
“ But literature is a republic and it must here be said, though all unwillingly, that Lord Rosebery is but an amateur- a superficial though a clever amateur after all, and their extravagances do not change the fact. ”
– Robert Louis Stevenson a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial by Alexander H. Japp