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"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
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"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
"Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run."
"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."
"What is 'common sense'? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!"
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
"The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine."
"Common sense varies among the young, as among the old."
"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is."
"Remember, crowd doesn't care about common sense."
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"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"
"The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science."
"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both."
"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."
"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."
"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."
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