Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most…

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

— Tacitus

“Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.”

— Arcesilaus

When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

— Tacitus

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

— Tacitus

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

— Tacitus

In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.

— Richard Baxter

The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the…

— Anonymous

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

— Julius Caesar

Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which,…

— Francis Bacon

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

— Thomas Fuller

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

— Kim Collins

Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not…

— Forrest Church

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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

— Bob Hawke

Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we…

— Wendell Berry