Commonwealth Quotes

• 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.'

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Years

  Speech in House of Commons, 18 June 1940

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• The Commonwealth makes the world safe for diversity

  Nelson Mandela

  Diversity, World, Safe

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• I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Race, Years, Land

  Queen Elizabeth II's Speech on her Coronation Day, www.royal.uk. June 2, 1953.

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• 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.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Country, World, Mixtures

  Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealthoralhistories.org. May 12, 2014.

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Government, Ordinary, Royalty

  Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt (1854). “Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt”, p.45

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

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Quitting, Easy, Enough

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Members, Whole

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1928). “De Re Publica”

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• The sporting fields where Australia's greats began their careers are built and rebuilt with Commonwealth help, as are the halls and community centres where our most of our well-known stars first felt the magic of the stage.

  Anthony Albanese

  Stars, Careers, Australia

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Robert Mugabe

  Choices, Membership, Made

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Peace, Compassion

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

  Billy Joe Saunders

  Winning, Titles, Three

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• Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

  Tacitus

  Law, Libertarian

  Tacitus (2007). “The Annals & The Histories”, p.100, Modern Library

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

  Thomas Fuller

  Husband, Men, Married

  Thomas Fuller (1840). “The Holy State and the Profane State”, p.172

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• We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwealth of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians, where people's wealth depends on the people around you. If you become a rich person and everyone around you is poor you are very poor.

  Goodluck Jonathan

  Country, People, Want

  Interview with Isha Sesay, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2010.

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

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: eldiariony.com

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• Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of any public issue. They think that no harm will come from their neglect. They act as if it is always the business of somebody else to look after this or that. When this selfish notion is entertained by all, the commonwealth slowly begins to decay.

  Thucydides

  Selfish, Thinking, Issues

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• Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

  Johann Most

  Want, Transformation, Improvement

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• 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.

  Bob Hawke

  Country, Numbers, Growing

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• 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.

  Mahathir Mohamad

  Country, Should, Relevant

  "Interview with Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad". Interview with Sue Onslow, commonwealth-oral-history-project.blogs.sas.ac.uk. February 11, 2015.

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• 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.

  Anne Hutchinson

  Church, Desire, Looks

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• When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.

  Michael King

  Strong, Children, Home

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

  Bryant H. McGill

  Roots, Understanding, Humans

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• The Commonwealth is a mere club, but it has become like Animal Farm, where some members are more equal than others. How can Blair claim to regulate and direct events and still say all of us are equals?

  Robert Mugabe

  Animal, Zimbabwe, Events

  "Mugabe: Commonwealth is 'Animal Farm'" by Chris Chinaka and Ed Johnson, www.independent.co.uk. December 7, 2003.

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• Therefore those governing the State ought primarily to devote themselves to the service of individual groups and of the whole commonwealth, and through the entire scheme of laws and institutions to cause both public and individual well-being to develop spontaneously out of the very structure and administration of the state.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Wisdom, Law, Politics

  Catholic Church. Pope (1878-1903 : Leo XIII)., Pope Leo XIII (1987*). “On the Condition of Workers”

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• The Commonwealth of Kentucky has a judicial system, and this system needs a lot of repair. Therefore, there is no need for Kentucky to start building another judicial system within the system, that we already have.

  Sonny Landham

  Kentucky, Needs, Building

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