Famous quotes containing the words commonwealth and/or act:
“The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,—he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)