Commonwealth Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Commonwealth Government Monarchy Ordinary Royalty
An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The monarchy is a part of the state. It exists to serve the people. — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
If a nation does not want a monarchy, change the nation's mind. If a nation does not need a monarchy, change the nation's needs. — Jan Smuts Copy Share Image
Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The monarchy is thousands of years old and has experienced many things like 'The Crown' in the past. They're always changing and evolving; that's… — Claire Foy Copy Share Image
How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account.… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon. — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
I would like to thank the Commonwealth Games Federation for the very fair manner in which this matter has been dealt with. — Kim Collins Copy Share Image
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth. — Julius Caesar Copy Share Image
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
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… — Jack Straw Copy Share Image
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