1.
The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings.
Bryant H. McGill
2.
It was Indira Gandhi who very much lined up with the Russians. And she was, you know, within the Commonwealth, basically one out on that. The first meeting in 1983 was held in India and I was very off put by her. I just couldn't abide her, basically.
Bob Hawke
3.
We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
4.
A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
Alexander Pope
5.
Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
Tacitus
7.
Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.
Mahatma Gandhi
8.
I don't know who described Mahathir [bin Mohamad] as a pillar of the Commonwealth, but they don't know what they're talking about.
Bob Hawke
9.
She [ Elizabeth II] is, you know, "Do-what-you're-told, Lady". But in the Commonwealth, she is much more than just a figurehead.
Bob Hawke