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“The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.”
Wendell Berry“A proper community, we should remember also, is a commonwealth: a place, a resource, an economy. It answers the needs, practical as well as social and spiritual, of its members - among them the need to need one another. The answer to the present alignment of political power with wealth is the restoration of the identity of community and economy.(pg. 63, "Racism and the Economy")”
Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays“Everyone is by absolute natural right the master of his own thoughts, and thus utter failure will attend any attempt in a commonwealth to force men to speak only as prescribed by the sovereign despite their different and opposing opinions.”
Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise“It is even so in a commonwealth and in the councils of princes; if ill opinions cannot be quite rooted out, and you cannot cure some received vice according to your wishes, you must not, therefore, abandon the commonwealth, for the same reasons as you should not forsake the ship in a storm because you cannot command the winds. You are not obliged to assault people with discourses that are out of their road, when you see that their received notions must prevent your making an impression upon them: you ought rather to cast about and to manage things with all the dexterity in your power, so that, if you are not able to make them go well, they may be as little ill as possible; for, except all men were good, everything cannot be right, and that is a blessing that I do not at present hope to see.”
Thomas More, Utopia“The commonwealth is sick of their own choice”
Their over-greedy love has surfeited.An habitation giddy and unsureHath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.“The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.”
Samuel Johnson“The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings”
Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason“An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.”
Sir Henry Wotton“If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.”
Russell Kirk