Republic Day

Republic Day is the name of a holiday in several countries to commemorate the day when they became republics.

Read more about Republic Day:  Republic Day in Other Countries

Famous quotes containing the words republic and/or day:

    “Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.”
    —Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)

    “I do not want to be covetous, but I think I speak the minds of many a wife and mother when I say I would willingly work as hard as possible all day and all night, if I might be sure of a small profit, but have worked hard for twenty-five years and have never known what it was to receive a financial compensation and to have what was really my own.”
    —Emma Watrous, U.S. inventor. As quoted in Feminine Ingenuity, ch. 8, by Anne L. MacDonald (1992)