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"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
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"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."
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"Romantics consider common sense vulgar."
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"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."
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"Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes."
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"Common sense is not so common."
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"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."
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"What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense."
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"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."
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"Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing."
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"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is."
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"Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense."
Education
"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."
War
"Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done."
Power
"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."
Government
"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."
War
"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?"
Learning
"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
Home
"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."
Government
"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."
Trust
"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."
Government
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