Commonwealth Quotes

118 quotes by 104 authors

In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success can be neither appraised in advance nor later retrospectively determined. There is only… — Ludwig von Mises
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of… — Wendell Berry
A disunited people till the end of time, suspicious and distrustful of each other, [the Americans] will be divided and subdivided into little commonwealths... with… — Josiah Tucker
The 2006 event logo combines the twin spires of Churchill Downs, one of the great signature elements in sports, with the greatest international day of… — Damon Thayer
It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons and have… — Calvin Coolidge
So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic. — Plato
If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal… — Samuel Adams
Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between one House and… — Peter Costello
We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians,… — Goodluck Jonathan
The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity — Nelson Mandela
When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this… — Michael King
A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government… — Walter Raleigh
ANTI-ZIONISTS, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are counters, not coins;… — Milton Steinberg
National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is… — Frantz Fanon
When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. — William Shakespeare
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared â€” this must some day become the highest maxim… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants. — Alexander Pope
Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of… — Mary Wortley Montagu
..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of… — C.S. Lewis

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