Commonwealth Quotes

Hate has no place in our great Commonwealth.

— Glenn Youngkin

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

— Alexander Pope

The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.

— Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity

— Nelson Mandela

Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.

— Michael East

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

Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.

— William Shakespeare

The cornerstone of what makes our commonwealth a wonderful place to live is all that we share in common, not the things…

— Ralph Northam

For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the…

— Cathy Freeman

Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.

— Thomas Hobbes

A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility…

— John Pym

Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.

— Thomas More

The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in…

— Jim Bunning

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

— Queen Elizabeth II

By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating…

— Edmund Burke

All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of…

— John Henry Comstock

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and…

— Anne Hutchinson

The Democratic leadership has expressed great concern for the incarceration rate in the commonwealth in the last few years. Now they want…

— Bill Vaughan

There is a reciprocal respect for [ Elizabeth II], for her interest in the Commonwealth. The members of the Commonwealth recognise that…

— Bob Hawke

It was Indira Gandhi who very much lined up with the Russians. And she was, you know, within the Commonwealth, basically one…

— Bob Hawke

What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged…

— Thomas Hobbes

Even in South Africa, the Commonwealth were not doing anything, and their attitude was to tolerate apartheid in South Africa. There was…

— Mahathir Mohamad

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

The judges who awarded the 1980 Commonwealth Poetry Prize to my first collection of poems, Crossing the Peninsula and Other Poems, cited…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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

— Anonymous

..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his…

— John Locke

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

— John 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

“The QSMV Dominion Monarch was launched in 1938 to be a luxury passenger liner. Designed with refrigerated cargo holds, she was built…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise

“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 commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Ralph Northam

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

— Samuel Johnson

I'm from the COMMONWEALTH…Where WEALTH ain't COMMON!!

— Pharrell

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

— Babatunde Fashola

This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own…

— Woodrow Wilson