Commonwealth State Funeral

Famous quotes containing the words commonwealth, state and/or funeral:

    “We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.”
    —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    “Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.”
    —Günther Grass (b. 1927)

    “And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)