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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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"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 that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
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"What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense."
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"Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition."
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"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense."
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"I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation."
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"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
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"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
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"Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting."
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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."
Government
"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
Home
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
Government
"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
"Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes."
Reading
"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 executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war."
War
"In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority."
Danger
"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."
Science
"Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done."
Power
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