“The United States is a republic because the framers believed that the interests of the people are served best when they elect representatives to govern on their behalf.”

“In 1945, Kurds set up a Kurdish republic at Mahabad in the Soviet, occupied zone in Iran.”

“Russia has been trying to pull the small, rebellious mountain republic back into its fold since the crumbling of the Soviet Union.”

“There is an abundance of powerfully voiced republicanism, anticlerical fervour and epicurean life.”

“Those who doubted, and they were few, spoke of a man of integrity with a strong commitment to republicanism.”

“Despite his origins as a Whig and a constitutionalist, he is widely revered as the father of militant Irish republicanism.”

“I drunk with all my heart to the republick of the United Provinces.”

“However, Ruane believes most nationalists and republicans will vote with their heads on Wednesday.”

“You can also imagine the friends, the republicans, because it was not just artists that came but those that really wanted to shape the future.”

“Just because they can point to the prior administration and say they took wads of Enron money does nothing to excuse the republicans.”

“A lot of African countries have become banana republics because they tend to be emotional, to Africanize just for the sake of it.”

“As these republics struggle to reimagine themselves as sovereign states, they are drawn to their ancient ethnic roots.”

“It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.”