Croatian Republican Peasant

Famous quotes containing the words republican and/or peasant:

    “I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)