Famous quotes containing the words commonwealth, war and/or graves:
“The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Those who dare to interpret God’s will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.”
—Robert Runcie (b. 1921)
“We forget cruelty and past betrayal,
Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
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