It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I assumed the leadership within the Commonwealth for the fight against apartheid. I was very much assisted by Brian Mulroney, the Prime… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits. In time, a… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The 2006 event logo combines the twin spires of Churchill Downs, one of the great signature elements in sports, with the greatest… — Damon Thayer Copy Share Image
As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office… — John Knox Copy Share Image
The sporting fields where Australia's greats began their careers are built and rebuilt with Commonwealth help, as are the halls and community… — Anthony Albanese Copy Share Image
I am of opinion that national greatness is more for the advantage of private citizens, than any individual well-being coupled with public… — Pericles Copy Share Image
As monarchs have a right to call in the specie of a state, and raise its value, by their own impression; so… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
As we move toward the pluralist commonwealth, economic interventions that stabilize communities - for instance by localizing the flows of goods and… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
... the structure of our public morality crashed to earth. Above its grave a tombstone read, "Be tolerant--even of evil." Logically the… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
Competing for Wales in the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne 2006 at the age of 16 was daunting for me. It was my… — Jazmin Carlin Copy Share Image
..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
The Commonwealth Games is an event for everyone. I believe it continues because of the unity and appreciation in respect of diversity,… — Denise Lewis Copy Share Image
Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation… — Johann Most Copy Share Image
Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
We speak for all citizens of the Commonwealth when we say that society can draw great hope for the future because of… — William Weld Copy Share Image
Actually, I invited many Commonwealth leaders to come to Malaysia. They did not accept my invitation. By that, I mean, they didn't… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
Almost all the United Commonwealth presidents have been female. It has been argued that women are less aggressive, more maternal, and thus… — Joelle Charbonneau Copy Share Image
We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs… — Goodluck Jonathan Copy Share Image
During my time, squash was not even part of Asian or Commonwealth Games. Considering the dominance of Jansher Khan and I in… — Jahangir Khan Copy Share Image
If the situation in Zimbabwe continues to deteriorate, Britain will argue for Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Heads of… — Jack Straw Copy Share Image
The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high,… — Ernie Fletcher Copy Share Image
“By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways, as there are floating… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
One of the features of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings was [that] she [ Elizabeth II] would have a meeting with… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship,… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
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