America Quote by Peter Carey

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

— Queen Elizabeth II

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

— Richard Flanagan

As a child of the Commonwealth, I had been brought up to believe Great Britain was the promised land, a culture where the rule…

— Gina Miller

“AUSTRALIA, LIKE THE UNITED STATES, experienced a different path to inclusive institutions than the one taken by England. The same revolutions that shook England…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization?

— Lord Randolph Churchill

In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

— Brenton Thwaites

I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being…

— Geoffrey Rush

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain…

— Richard O'Brien

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

— Ralph Northam

We are a Commonwealth that believes in moving forward, not being tied down by the mistakes of our past.

— Ralph Northam

When I went to Australia, I had this feeling, like, 'Wow, this is really a different country.' I think that feeling of genuine foreignness,…

— Naomi Klein

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

— Lupita Nyong'o