Commonwealth Quotes

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

— Tacitus

At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.

— Michael East

The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity

— Nelson Mandela

The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.

— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

— Alexander Pope

The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires.

— Joseph Conrad

who want to benefit from the commonwealth must contribute to the common purse.

— Babatunde Fashola

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

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

— Anonymous

The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings.

— Anonymous

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to…

— Walter Raleigh

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

— Richard Baxter

Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.

— John Dryden

I don't know who described Mahathir [bin Mohamad] as a pillar of the Commonwealth, but they don't know what they're talking about.

— Bob Hawke

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

— Jay Weatherill

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

— Josiah Tucker

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with…

— Robert Mugabe

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

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the…

— Cesar Chavez

These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing…

— Plato

Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a…

— Gagan Narang

The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate…

— Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot…

— Thomas Hobbes

Without reverence we [people] will gradually descend into ecocide. In the degree that the imperatives of the market - the temple of…

— Sam Keen

The unity of the human race, as envisaged by Bahá'u'lláh, implies the establishment of a world commonwealth in which all nations, races,…

— Shoghi Effendi

The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first…

— Edmund Burke

I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a…

— John Adams

ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are…

— Milton Steinberg

..(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

All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

As we move toward the pluralist commonwealth, economic interventions that stabilize communities - for instance by localizing the flows of goods and…

— Gar Alperovitz

“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult…

— Wendell Berry

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

— Samuel Johnson

We live in the best commonwealth, in the best country, in the world.

— Ralph Northam

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

— William Shakespeare

All Pennsylvanians owe a debt of gratitude to the veterans who have served our Commonwealth and fought for our freedoms.

— Josh Shapiro

The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the…

— Demosthenes

She [ Elizabeth II] is, you know, "Do-what-you're-told, Lady". But in the Commonwealth, she is much more than just a figurehead.

— Bob Hawke

Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

— Thomas Hobbes