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- When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives…
- We owe gratitude to France, justice to England, good will to all, and subservience to none ... it was by the sober sense of our…
- Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong…
- If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
- I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where…
- War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of…
- The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
- I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has…
- My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.
- Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to…
- Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
- The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness,…
- Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.
- I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing,…
- Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly…
- The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.
- I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.
- Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
- To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only…
- Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.
- He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For…
- In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either…
- If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the…
- The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.
- I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.
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