1. "Accelerating the emergence of an American industrial bourgeoisie, the war tied the fortunes of this class to the Republican party and the national state."
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Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution
2. "These dead were in some regards the antithesis of the Republican disappeared in that their deaths were, from the start, supercharged with state symbolism and the disinterred bodies of many of them (such as those at Paracuellos, but there are many other examples) were made highly visible in the 1940s as part of a ceremonial process of state sanctification."
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Helen Graham, The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
3. "That state has gone, but its narrative enthralls those deaths still today. It is for this reason that the Francoist dead and the Republican dead are still not, nor ever were in the 1980s and 1990s, similar quantities to be remembered and named."
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Helen Graham, The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
4. "All republics that acquire supremacy over other nations, rule them selfishly and oppressively. There is no exception to this in either ancient or modern times. Carthage, Rome, Venice, Genoa, Florence, Pisa, Holland, and Republican France, all tyrannized over every province and subject state where they gained authority."
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Edward Shepherd Creasy, The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo
5. "Why in the world are you a Republican?"
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Calvin Trillin, About Alice
6. "Washington offered a republican substitute for the dignity of royalty."
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Richard Brookhiser, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
7. "At least I never voted Republican. -Tony Kushner"
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Larry Smith, It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure
8. "long, slow and painful recuperation of Republican history and memory"
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Helen Graham, The War and Its Shadow: Spain's Civil War in Europe's Long Twentieth Century
9. "the Republican-dominated Eightieth Congress, the infamous Do-Nothing Congress,"
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Debi Unger, George Marshall: A Biography
10. "I listened to a Republican colleague work himself into a lather over a proposed plan to provide school breakfasts to preschoolers. Such a plan, he insisted, would crush their spirit of self-reliance. I had to point out that not too many five-year-olds I knew were self-reliant, but children who spent their formative years to hungry to learn could very well end up being charges of the state."
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Quote by Barack Obama