Famous quotes containing the words commonwealth and/or countries:
“The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“[W]e are all guilty in some Measure of the same narrow way of Thinking ... when we fancy the Customs, Dresses, and Manners of other Countries are ridiculous and extravagant, if they do not resemble those of our own.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)