Commonwealth Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Charles Edison

  Party, Organization, Issues

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

  Plato

  Strong, Noble, Clarity

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• If mind is common to us, then also the reason, whereby we are reasoning beings, is common. If this be so, then also the reason which enjoins what is to be done or left undone is common. If this be so, law also is common; if this be so, we are citizens; if this be so, we are partakers in one constitution; if this be so, the Universe is a kind of Commonwealth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Law, Mind, Citizens

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (4), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here.

  Ernie Fletcher

  Opportunity, Kentucky, People

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• 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.

  Jim Bunning

  Agriculture, Kentucky, Who We Are

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• 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.

  John Pym

  Soul, Body, Parliament

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• Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

  Francis Bacon

  Stars, Philosophy, Light

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.186

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  White, Common, Wealth

  Source: gandhiking.ning.com

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• For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games!

  Cathy Freeman

  Athlete, Commonwealth Games, Track

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• 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

  Encouragement, Differences, Honor

  Richard Baxter, Richard Bulger Schlatter (1957). “Richard Baxter & Puritan Politics”

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

  Bob Hawke

  Old Lady, Elizabeth Ii, Knows

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• 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

  Real, Thinking, Rooms

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the other planets, not only for economic exploitation, but also as possible homes for man. . . . The goal for the solar system would seem to be that it should become an interplanetary community of very diverse worlds . . . . Through the pooling of this wealth of experience, through this 'commonwealth of worlds,' new levels of mental and spiritual development should become possible, levels at present quite inconceivable to man.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Spiritual, Home, Men

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• Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their innate evil passions as often as they can do so with safety.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Passion, Men, Yield

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• 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.

  Henry VIII of England

  Father, Ignorance, Heaven

  "Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence" edited by Janel Mueller, University Of Chicago Press, (pp. 128-129), 2011.

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• From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  May, Riches, Talent

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.18

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• If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

  Russell Kirk

  Order, Soul, Want

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• 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.

  Steven Morrissey

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Should, Nations

  Source: gandhiking.ning.com

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

  Joseph Conrad

  Dream, Men, Darkness

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• 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.

  Paul Keating

  Two, Australia Day, Government

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Community, Leader, Kingdoms

  "The iPod and the Queen, the Kindle and the King" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2009.

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• In the socialist commonwealth every economic change becomes an undertaking whose success can be neither appraised in advance nor later retrospectively determined. There is only groping in the dark. Socialism is the abolition of rational economy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Dark, Determined, Socialism

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Economic Calculation In the Socialist Commonwealth”, p.22, Lulu Press, Inc

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• All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these minute beings depends the material success or failure of a great commonwealth.

  John Henry Comstock

  Life, Success, Failure

  John Henry Comstock (1897). “Insect Life: An Introduction to Nature-study and a Guide for Teachers, Students, and Others Interested in Out-of-door Life”

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

  Abhinav Bindra

  Commonwealth Games, Nine, Lasts

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