Operative Commonwealth Fed

Famous quotes containing the words operative, commonwealth and/or fed:

    “I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Was I not born in this Realm? Were my parents born in any foreign country?... Is not my Kingdom here? Whom have I oppressed? Whom have I enriched to other’s harm? What turmoil have I made to this Commonwealth that I should be suspected to have no regard of the same?”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    “All earth was but one thought—and that was death,
    Immediate and inglorious; and the pang
    Of famine fed upon all entrails—men
    Died, and their bones were tombless as their flesh;
    The meagre by the meagre were devour’d,”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)