top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Commonsense quotes
"What is 'common sense'? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!"
"The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations."
"Common sense varies among the young, as among the old."
"Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections."
"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."
"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense."
"Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
"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."
Explore more quotes by James Madison
"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."
"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."
"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
"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."
"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."
"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."
"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."
"A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country."
"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
bottom of page