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The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.
— Russell Kirk
The Testing is no longer filled with excitement for the opportunity to help the Commonwealth rebuild. The Testing is now about staying alive.
— Joelle Charbonneau
The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.
— William Shakespeare
we don't live in Plato's Commonwealth, and when we can't have perfection we ought to comply with the measure that is least remote from it.
— Bernard Bailyn
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
— Seneca The Younger
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
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
— Queen Elizabeth II
The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings
— Bryant McGill
The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.
— Archibald Primrose
I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen.
— Danielle De Niese
Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.
— Charlie Flynn
This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.
— Geoffrey Fisher
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.
— Henry David Thoreau
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
— Samuel Johnson
Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
— Thomas Fuller
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 of the commonwealth.
— Walter Raleigh
Who want to benefit from the commonwealth must contribute to the common purse.
— Babatunde Fashola
The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity
— Nelson Mandela
Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
— William Shakespeare
I was born too late and missed the dream of empire. Its shadow, the Commonwealth, coincides with my life but rarely connected with it.
— Richard Flanagan
The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.
— Bob McDonnell
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
Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.
— Michael East
Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
— Ed Rendell
Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study of the past.
— Bertrand Russell
The sight of her showing so much fake patriotism for the Commonwealth made him want to tear off that sash and strangle her with it.
— Marissa Meyer
What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.
— Richard Flanagan
Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I'm fighting for the Commonwealth title on Saturday and I believe I'll be ready for a world title shot in the next 18 months.
— Billy Joe Saunders
I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
— George Rogers Clark
It is in the laws of a commonwealth, as in the laws of gaming: Whatsoever the gamesters all agree on, is injustice to none of them.
— Thomas Hobbes
The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.
— Billy Joe Saunders
In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained.
— Theodor Mommsen
I would like to thank the Commonwealth Games Federation for the very fair manner in which this matter has been dealt with.
— Kim Collins
We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.
— Joe Hill
The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.
— Demosthenes
What is substantially true of families in this respect, is true of a whole commonwealth.
— Charles Dickens
The caterpillars of the commonwealth,Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away. — William Shakespeare
A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
— Alexander Pope