Commonwealth Quotes · Page 3

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

— Julius Caesar

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so…

— Francis Bacon

The Commonwealth Games is an important benchmark in the whole career path of an athlete.

— Abhinav Bindra

The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.

— Bob McDonnell

Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room,…

— Bob Hawke

While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.

— Henry David Thoreau

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

— Thomas Fuller

Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I like to think that there is a clear majority of people who's be supportive of the idea, It does save the…

— Steven Morrissey

It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They…

— Ludwig von Mises

The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like Animal Farm, where some members are more equal than others. How…

— Robert Mugabe

From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

A disunited people till the end of time, suspicious and distrustful of each other, [the Americans] will be divided and subdivided into…

— Josiah Tucker

When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New…

— Michael King

If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all…

— Margery Wilson

Honorable Senators: My sincerest thanks I offer you. Conserve the firm foundations of our institutions. Do your work with the spirit of…

— Calvin Coolidge

Therefore those governing the State ought primarily to devote themselves to the service of individual groups and of the whole commonwealth, and…

— Pope Leo XIII

Commonwealth is the only alternative for Puerto Rico. It is the only alternative that harmonizes the aspirations and goals of the modern…

— Anibal Acevedo Vila

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their…

— John Adams

If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of…

— Samuel Adams

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the…

— Winston Churchill

There be three sorts of government--monarchical, aristocratical, democratical; and they are apt to fall three several ways into ruin--the first, by tyranny;…

— Francis Quarles

To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those…

— Edward Gibbon

Let's call this then, only half facetiously, a new patristic, in which the intellectual is charged with the task not only to…

— Anonymous

Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.

— Charlie Flynn

The idea of a commonwealth relationship is alien to most people but I think that's true generally.

— Sonia Sotomayor

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

— Russell Kirk

Amazon continues to demonstrate confidence in Virginia by expanding and reinvesting in our Commonwealth.

— Ralph Northam

Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization?

— Lord Randolph Churchill

Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.

— Billy Joe Saunders

I'm fighting for the Commonwealth title on Saturday and I believe I'll be ready for a world title shot in the next…

— Billy Joe Saunders

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

— Plato

The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

— George Brandis

I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen.

— Danielle de Niese

This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.

— Geoffrey Fisher

The Commonwealth Games have their critics, though I suspect that they are generally people who haven't experienced them.

— Chris Hoy

I think there was, and there is, a real Commonwealth culture. It's different. America doesn't really feel to be a part of…

— Peter Carey

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I would like to thank the Commonwealth Games Federation for the very fair manner in which this matter has been dealt with.

— Kim Collins