Famous quotes containing the words republic, golden and/or era:
“People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.”
—Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)
“I’d let my golden chances pass me by.”
—Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)