Commonwealth Quotes

Commonwealth Quote of the day

Whoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and banished all ignorance, has a most certain way to heaven.

To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.

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

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

I know the situation of the Commonwealth generally, and I know that the aim should be to make the Commonwealth much more relevant to the poorer countries.

The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings.

A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.

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.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

who want to benefit from the commonwealth must contribute to the common purse.

Actually, I invited many Commonwealth leaders to come to Malaysia. They did not accept my invitation. By that, I mean, they didn't say they didn't accept, but they just didn't come here.

This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.

Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.

The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family farm in Kentucky has centered around one crop: tobacco.

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth.

You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.

Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.

The Commonwealth is a mixture of developing and developed world, in which the developed countries were very influential and their policies hold sway most of the time.

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.

Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.

I really think in the Commonwealth of Europe you should have Russia. I listed a hundred countries that would be in it and it would then be a really European United Nations.

Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

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

The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity

Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.

I like to think that there is a clear majority of people who's be supportive of the idea, It does save the existing industry. It does provide hundreds of millions of dollars for the Commonwealth.

The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.

The idea of a commonwealth relationship is alien to most people but I think that's true generally.

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.

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.

Education has to be welcomed as a Spiritual Practice for the establishment of Peace in the individual heart as well as in society including the human commonwealth.

In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.

Unlike the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, the umma, or Muslim community, has no symbolic leader, let alone a formal one.

Every male citizen of the commonwealth, liable to taxes or to militia duty in any county, shall have a right to vote for representatives for that county to the legislature.

It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said, I assumed a leadership role within the Commonwealth on that.

She [ Elizabeth II] is, you know, "Do-what-you're-told, Lady". But in the Commonwealth, she is much more than just a figurehead.

The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

Say that again, Commonwealth whit? (translation: what?) I'm no used tae hearing that.