Common sense isn't.
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| To give the new system its proper validity and energy, a ratification must be obtained from the people, and not merely from the ordinary authority of the Legislatures. |
| ~ Letter to George Washington, April 16, 1787 (James Madison, 1865, I, page 290) ~ |
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| A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. |
| ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits. Aristocracy. ~ |
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| People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. |
| ~ Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. iii. p. 274. ~ |
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| If I am Sophocles, I am not mad; and if I am mad, I am not Sophocles. |
| ~ Sophocles, Vit. Anon. p. 64 (Plumptre's Trans.). ~ |
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| A progeny of learning. |
| ~ Richard Sheridan, The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2. ~ |
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| Oh! thou clear spirit of clear fire, whom on these seas I as Persian once did worship, till in the sacramental act so burned by thee, that to this hour I bear the scar; I now know thee, thou clear spirit, and I now know that thy right worship is defiance. To neither love nor reverence wilt thou be kind; and e’en for hate thou canst but kill; and all are killed. No fearless fool now fronts thee. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Captain Ahab, in Moby Dick, ch. 119 (1851). ~ |
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| The merit of the founders of our Republics lies in the more accurate views and the practical applications of the doctrines [of self-government]. The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood; but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective. |
| ~ Letter to N. P. Trist, February--, 1830 (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 58) ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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