Commonwealth Quotes

118 quotes by 104 authors

And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an… — Galileo Galilei
The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial… — Edmund Burke
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike… — Plato
The allied nations with the fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundations of a Jewish… — Woodrow Wilson
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. — John Dryden
Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man. — Thomas Hobbes
Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not require… — Forrest Church
It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and… — Boris Johnson
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained,… — Dorothea Dix
We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far as… — Pope Leo XIII
If the situation in Zimbabwe continues to deteriorate, Britain will argue for Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in… — Jack Straw
As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has… — John Knox
A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul… — John Pym
Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Despite the popular idea of anarchists as violent men, Anarchism is the one non-violent social philosophy.â€¦ The function of the Anarchist is two-fold. By daily… — Ammon Hennacy
Let's call this then, only half facetiously, a new patristic, in which the intellectual is charged with the task not only to denounce error and… — Michael Hardt
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
It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a church with which… — George Mason
For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider… — Anne Hutchinson
This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me. — Abhinav Bindra

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