Famous quotes containing the words offices and/or commonwealth:
“If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own....”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)