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“We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.”

Ifs Men Matter Government Truth Honest Honesty Capacity Absolutes Endure Credit Brilliant Voting Republic Efficient Public Life Prerequisites

Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.”

Two Names Influence Honor Absolutes Court Enjoyed Phenomenon Republic Attributes Usual Rulers Etiquette Monarchy Despotism Monarchs Regal

Book:Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction

Source: Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction

“Fascism was part of the absolute evil. (...) We have to denounce the ashaming pages in the history of our past. (...) There included all the pages related to the discrimination and the persecution of jews and, more in general, of minoritires. And therefore that one [The Italian Social Republic of Salò] is also included.”

Past Evil Social Pages Absolutes Jew Discrimination Related Republic Italian Fascism Our Past Persecution

Author:Gianfranco Fini

“The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.”

States Character Government Form Color Absolutes Conservative Republic Nazi Monarchy Fascists Static Bolsheviks Constitutional Monarchy

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.”

Giving Firsts Religion Sky Giving Up Direct Absolutes Originals Separation Phrases Republic Amendments Currency Not Giving Up Violation First Amendment Do Not Give Up God We Trust

Author:Gore Vidal

“An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic.”

Ifs Should May Heaven Wealth History Rich Absolutes Saint Merit Expenses Republic Idle Favour Roman Empire Charitable Monarchs Industrious Constantine Patrimony

Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“This Constitutional Republic called America is an historic aberration. Any honest student of history will note that the prevailing socio-economic system is feudalism, where a tiny minority control the vast majority of wealth, power, and resources. In doing so, they have absolute control over the 99% of the population. Power equals control.”

America Wealth Economic Honest Students Resources Absolutes Majority Notes Population Tiny Minorities Republic Historic Prevailing Economic Systems Aberration Feudalism

Author:Howard Nemerov

“It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed, than it is under an absolute government that they should be ignorant. Under a republic the institutions of learning, while bound by the constitution and laws, are in no way subservient to the government.”

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Author:Calvin Coolidge

“The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.”