Common Quotes

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The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny. — John F. Kennedy
They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the… — George Amos Dorsey
The Lord ate from a common bowl, and asked the disciples to sit on the grass. He washed their feet, with a towel wrapped around… — Clement of Alexandria
That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle. All men have one common original: they participate in one common nature, and… — Alexander Hamilton
When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external… — William Godwin
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. — Ludwig von Mises
The proper and limited use of government is to invoke a common justice and keep the peace - and that is all. — Leonard Read
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The time for common-sense immigration reform is now," Grayson said in a news release. "We must set forth a straightforward route to citizenship for the… — Alan Grayson
Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a… — Oswald Chambers
Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to… — Arthur W. Pink
In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible. — Ulrich Beck
The E.U. has moved to combat global terrorism by instituting common European arrest and evidence warrants and creating a joint situation center to pool and… — John Bruton
A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no… — Henry Ward Beecher
The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in… — Robert Kennedy
The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it. — Jane Addams
All classes of people under social pressure are permeated with a common experience; they are emotionally welded as others cannot be. With them, even ordinary… — Alain LeRoy Locke
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to… — Malcolm X
More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction… — Jonathan Rauch

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