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Best Common Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.
- Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.
- not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of…
- Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
- Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with…
- It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain dictates of common sense than by the practice of any…
- No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is,…
More Common Quotes
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo
- Well, the common enemy in North America is the Western consumer. The consumer has driven oil up to $50 a barrel so… — Dan Aykroyd
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- I don't think Warren Buffett should be the treasurer or whatever. Warren Buffett's nuts! Just because he's a freaking billionaire doesn't mean… — Stephen Baldwin