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"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
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"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."
War

"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
Home

"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

"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

"By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt."
Inequality

"America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts."
Immigration

"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."
People

"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
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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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"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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"Common sense varies among the young, as among the old."
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"Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections."
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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."
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"Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run."
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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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"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
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"What is 'common sense'? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!"
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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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