Bound Quote by Richard Flanagan

When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had…

— Michael King

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

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

— Queen Elizabeth II

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

— Bob Hawke

It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted…

— Christopher Bailey

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

At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Across the Atlantic, in another theatre of the identity wars, the British prime minister was narrowing the definition of Britishness to exclude multiplicity, internationalism,…

— Salman Rushdie

I think there was, and there is, a real Commonwealth culture. It's different. America doesn't really feel to be a part of that.

— Peter Carey

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

— Samuel Johnson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and not yet found a role. The attempt to playa separate power rolethat is, a role apart from…

— Dean Acheson

In both world wars, Britain understood that our national sovereignty could only endure if we cooperated with other nations. That our fate is inexorably…

— Ed Davey