Common sense Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted…

— Edmund Burke

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

— Thomas Merton

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Surely of all ‘rights of man’, this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held…

— Thomas Carlyle

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

— Victor Hugo

When one comes to think of it, there are no such things as divine, immutable, or inalienable rights. Rights are things we get when…

— Helen Keller

The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.

— Tom Stoppard

But today, government is taking those rights from us, pretending that it gives us our rights. Indeed, those rights come from God, and it…

— Roy Moore

One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time; and they will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of…

— Abraham Lincoln

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

— Lucretia Mott