Republic Declared Independence

Famous quotes containing the words republic, declared and/or independence:

    “The United States is a republic, and a republic is a state in which the people are the boss. That means us. And if the big shots in Washington don’t do like we vote, we don’t vote for them, by golly, no more.”
    —Willis Goldbeck (1900–1979)

    “We would fain express our appreciation of the freedom and steady wisdom, so rare in the reformer, with which he declared that he was not born to abolish slavery, but to do right.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The Indian’s intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)