Commonwealth Office

Famous quotes containing the words commonwealth and/or office:

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

“The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation.... He is the world’s eye.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)