Commonwealth Observer Group

Famous quotes containing the words commonwealth, observer and/or group:

    “By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “The importance of its hat to a form becomes
    More definite. The sweeping brim of the hat
    Makes of the form Most Merciful Capitan,
    If the observer says so....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “With a group of bankers I always had the feeling that success was measured by the extent one gave nothing away.”
    —Francis Aungier, Pakenham, 7th Earl Longford (b. 1905)