“Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.”
When asked his reaction to John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address
Quoted by Atlantic magazine (November 1969)
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Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
Last Speech to the National Convention (26 July 1794)
Jules Verne book A Journey to the Center of the Earth
La science, mon garçon, est faite d’erreurs, mais d’erreurs qu’il est bon de commettre, car elles mènent peu à peu à la vérité.
Source: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Ch. XXXI: Preparations for a voyage of discovery
Augustus book Res Gestae Divi Augusti
Referring to the faction of Marcus Antonius.
Res Gestae Divi Augusti
“The loss of historical memory is restored in the very place where one has lost it.”
Sebouh Chouldjian (1959) Archbishop Sebouh Chouldjian is the primate of the Diocese of Gougark of the Armenian Apostolic Church
[Chouldjian, Bishop Sebouh, w:Sebouh Chouldjian, A bishops' pilgrimage to Western Armenia, The Armenian Reporter, 2009-12-12, http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2009-12-12-a-bishops--pilgrimage-to-western-armenia, 2010-06-16]
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Paul Glover (1947) Community organizer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; American politician
http://www.paulglover.org/occupy.html (preamble to “Occupy Philly: A Green Agenda”) 2011-11-12 <br class="br">Context: “The following proposals are offered to the Occupy movement, to restore this American republic to control by its full electorate; to free its markets for the employment and enjoyment of all workers; to transfer control of money to its public and to establish responsible banking; to secure homes from seizure; to assure quality education and medical care for all; to refresh America's soil, water and air for the health of endless generations; and to rebuild its cities toward balance with nature.”
“In our age nothing has been so degraded and then wholly restored as anatomy.”
Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) early anatomist
De fabrica, quoted in O'Mally 1964, p. 320
“There has never been a free people, a civilized nation, a real republic on this earth.”
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) American labor and political leader
The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)
Context: There has never been a free people, a civilized nation, a real republic on this earth. Human society has always consisted of masters and slaves, and the slaves have always been and are today, the foundation stones of the social fabric.
Wage-labor is but a name; wage-slavery is the fact.
“Has the Republic of Korea ever been more obviously unloved than in this year of "Hell Chosun?"”
Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies
2010s, Still the Unloved Republic (December 2016)