Top 284 Commonwealth Quotes & Sayings

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

Winning Commonwealth gold was just totally unbelievable.

Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.

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

The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires.

The Commonwealth Games is an event for everyone. I believe it continues because of the unity and appreciation in respect of diversity, different nationalities coming together to compete under one Commonwealth banner.

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

It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the children of the Commonwealth are the charge of the Commonwealth is a pagan one, derived from heathen Sparta and Platoís heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolution of the conjugal tie.

Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

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.

The Commonwealth Games is an important benchmark in the whole career path of an athlete.

The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.

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

While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.

The death penalty system is fundamentally flawed - it is inequitable, ineffective, and it has no place in this Commonwealth or this country.

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

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

Amazon continues to demonstrate confidence in Virginia by expanding and reinvesting in our Commonwealth.

I spent my first 10 years in the Commonwealth. I come from cricket, crumpets, cucumber sandwiches, the Queen.

I think there are a number of reasons, not least of which is the personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]. It's very easy to underrate her significance. I think she finds the Commonwealth and her position as Head of the Commonwealth infinitely more interesting than being the Queen of England, because she has no significant role in the latter.

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

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

The Commonwealth Prize is about celebrating the Commonwealth and the special relationship we have with the ex-colonies - which is part guilt and part warmth - and the Booker Prize isn't an essential part of that, but it is part of that.

There is a reciprocal respect for [ Elizabeth II], for her interest in the Commonwealth. The members of the Commonwealth recognise that here is a genuine interest from the top. So, that's one reason. I'm not putting it necessarily in order of importance.

After '45, Ben Gurion started to organize the Zionist movement and the conference in Baltimore. At this convention, they decided that the helm of the Zionist movement has to be a Jewish commonwealth... a Jewish commonwealth!

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.

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

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.

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

The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity

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

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

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

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

My ultimate responsibility is to the folks that elected me here in the commonwealth, so I am acutely aware of that obligation and commitment.

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

This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.

I am grateful to all those who have joined in our efforts to build a strong and equitable Commonwealth.

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

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

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.

The story of our Commonwealth cannot be told without the history and experiences of Virginia's Native tribes.

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.

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 in March.

The concept there was that the small number of developed countries within the Commonwealth should provide assistance. This was not just financial but personal, providing experts and so on, to assist less developed members of the Commonwealth to get on the growing path. And that was part of what we did with South Africa.

The governor is Virginia's chief executive and represents the commonwealth at all times.

I am George Rogers Clark. You have just become a prisoner of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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

Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own right, shall receive their free[dom] . . . . The Negroes thus bound, are (by their Masters or Mistresses) to be taught to read and write; and to be brought up to some useful occupation, agreeably to the Laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, providing for the support of Orphan and other poor Children. And I do hereby expressly forbid the Sale, or transportation out of the said Commonwealth, of any Slave I may die possessed of, under any pretence whatsoever.

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

The Commonwealth Games have their critics, though I suspect that they are generally people who haven't experienced them.

Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.

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

In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained.

One other thing: at the meeting in Canada, [there was] the coup in Fiji. This comes to an important part of the Commonwealth: the role of the Queen [Elizabeth II]. I had absolutely just enormous respect for her as leader of the Commonwealth. You could talk to her about any of the fifty-one countries of the Commonwealth and you could have an intelligent conversation with her about the economics, the politics. She really immersed herself in the Commonwealth.

..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows.

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

The majority of the people of Puerto Rico support commonwealth.

When I started at 15, I never thought about winning nine Commonwealth Games medals.