Operative Commonwealth Fed

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

“In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall have more; while he who is deplorably destitute of the same, he shall have taken away from him even that which he hath. Yet the world vows it is a very plain, downright matter-of-fact, plodding, humane sort of world.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own....”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

“Being fed by us you used us so
As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo’s bird,
Useth the sparrow.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)