Common sense isn't.
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| Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. viii. 51. ~ |
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| With respect to the words, "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the details of power connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution . . . [that] was not contemplated by the creators. |
| ~ Letter to James Robertson, April 20, 1831 (James Madison, 1865, IV, pages 171-172) ~ |
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| Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Redburn (1849), ch. 3, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 4, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war...but the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, -- for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments...for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. |
| ~ Woodrow Wilson ---Address to a Joint Session of Congress, April 2, 1917 ~ |
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| Custom is almost a second nature. |
| ~ Plutarch, Rules for the Preservation of Health. 18. ~ |
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| We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. |
| ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935) ~ |
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| Quote of the moment |
| No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. |
| ~ (James Madison) Federalist, no. 10 ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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