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«I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade like your father did. It's your father's lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or as random as a blaster, but an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Empire.»
Author: Alec Guinness
| Keywords:
blaster, clumsy, crusade, crusades, crusading, dark ages, elegant, guardians, idealistic, Jedi Knight, Jedi Knights, knight, knights, obi, Old Enough, random, republic, The Crusades, The Empire, uncle, WAN
«Her eyebrows are clipped parentheses, and she paints her face for the last days of the Weimar Republic. Frizzy orange curls grow in her wild hair like snapdragons pleading for water.»
«Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| Keywords:
existence, introduce, introduces, introducing, politics, republic
«Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
division, Free Press, grant, inheritances, press, provide, republic, thirty, Thirty Years
«I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
amenities, amenity, banana, bananas, banana republic, crass, developing, dreariness, landscape, republic, sallow, The Republic
«I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| Keywords:
aggregated, Corporations, corruption, endeavor, enthrone, enthroned, enthrones, era, eras, higher power, high hand, prejudices, prolong, prolongs, reign, reigning, republic, The Corporation, The Republic
«Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.»
«If One Wishes That a Sect of a Republic Live a Long Time, It Is Necessary to Draw It Back Often toward Its Principle»
«In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Genius,
Mediocrity
| Keywords:
republic, Republic of, The Republic