Definition of Republican

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Republican

Of or pertaining to a republic.

Consonant with the principles of a republic; as, republican sentiments or opinions; republican manners.

One who favors or prefers a republican form of government.

A member of the Republican party.

The American cliff swallow. The cliff swallows build their nests side by side, many together.

A South African weaver bird (Philetaerus socius). These weaver birds build many nests together, under a large rooflike shelter, which they make of straw.

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Republican Quotations

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
Thomas Jefferson

I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
Ronald Reagan

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
George Washington

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.
Will Rogers

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Will Rogers

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Robert Frost

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Frederick Douglass

After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.
Rush Limbaugh

Republican Translations

republican in Dutch is republikeins
republican in German is republikanisch
republican in Italian is repubblicano
republican in Portuguese is republicano
republican in Spanish is republicano
republican in Swedish is republikansk, republikan

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