Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth

Famous quotes containing the words polish and/or commonwealth:

“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

“This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own....”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)