“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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Last Speech to the National Convention (26 July 1794)

“The loss of historical memory is restored in the very place where one has lost it.”
[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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http://www.paulglover.org/occupy.html (preamble to “Occupy Philly: A Green Agenda”) 2011-11-12
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.”
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.”
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?"”
2010s, Still the Unloved Republic (December 2016)