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More Commonwealth Quotes

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• The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family… — Jim Bunning
• Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be… — Thomas Hobbes
• I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and… — Augustus
• Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please… — John Selden
• Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand… — Winston Churchill
• Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in… — George Washington
• All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the… — Unknown Author
• I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome,… — Samuel Johnson
• Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right… — Thomas Jefferson

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