Famous quotes containing the words commonwealth and/or countries:
“The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshiped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)