Commonwealth Military

Famous quotes containing the words commonwealth and/or military:

“The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)