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"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
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"For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable."
"Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections."
"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."
"Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting."
"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."
"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails."
"Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing."
"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."
"It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House."
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"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."
"What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."
"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."
"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."
"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."
"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
"Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."
"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."
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