Republican Guard is the organization of a republic which serves to protect the president and the government. Usually it is synonymous with Presidential Guard. A number of Arab countries have forces called "Republican Guard", using them as praetorian or elite military forces, in order to strengthen leaders' rule.
Republican Guard may refer to:
- Albanian Republican Guard
- Algerian Republican Guard
- French Republican Guard called the Garde républicaine (GR)
- Iraqi Republican Guard, the core of the Iraqi military during Saddam Hussein's rule
- Iraqi Special Republican Guard, a military force formed from the Iraqi Republican Guard and charged with Saddam Hussein's protection
- Italian Republican National Guard called the Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana (GNR)
- Egyptian Republican Guard, under the control of the Ministry of Defense
- Syrian Republican Guard, an armored division that protects the capital and top Syrian government officials
- Kazakhstan Republican Guard, a separate branch of the military than the army
- Lebanese Republican Guard, a military force attached to the Directorate-General of the Presidency of Lebanon
- Peruvian Republican Guard, a Peruvian security force responsibility for border control, custody of the prisons, and guarding significant government buildings.
- Portuguese Republican National Guard called the Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR)
- Republican Guard (Democratic Republic of the Congo) under President Joseph Kabila
- Guinean Republican Guard
- South Ossetian Republican Guard
- Yemeni Republican Guard
Famous quotes containing the words republican and/or guard:
“The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national character.... A climate which permits labor out-of-doors every month in the year and which requires industry to secure comfort—to provide food, shelter, clothing, fuel, etc.—is the very climate which secures the highest civilization.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Although adults have a role to play in teaching social skills to children, it is often best that they play it unobtrusively. In particular, adults must guard against embarrassing unskilled children by correcting them too publicly and against labeling children as shy in ways that may lead the children to see themselves in just that way.”
—Zick Rubin (20th century)