Common sense isn't.
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| For our food, I slaughtered sheep and oxen, day by day; With beer, oil and water, I filled large jars. |
| ~Atrahasis, Ancient Sumerian Folk Hero ~ |
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| It is easy to see the faults of others, but your own are difficult to see. You carefully sift through others' faults buy you hid your own like loaded dice. |
| ~Defilement ~ |
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| American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those of their own country. The same just and benevolent motives which produced interdiction in force against this criminal conduct will doubtless be felt by Congress in devising further means of suppressing the evil. |
| ~ (James Madison) State of the Union, 1810 ~ |
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| I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial; but I beg to know upon what principle it can he contended that any one department draws from the Constitution greater powers than another, in marking out the limits of the powers of the several departments. The Constitution is the charter of the people in the government; it specifies certain great powers as absolutely granted, and marks out the departments to exercise them. If the constitutional boundary of either be brought into question, I do not see that any one of these independent departments has more right than another to declare their sentiments on that point. |
| ~ (James Madison) Speech before House of Representatives, Elliot's Debates, June 16, 1789 (in the American Memory collection of the Library of Congress) ~ |
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| Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. |
| ~ President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, inaugural address, March 4, 1933.—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933, p. 11 (1938). ~ |
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| Like all high functionaries, he deemed it indispensable religiously to sustain his dignity; one of the most troublesome things in the world, and one calling for the greatest self-denial. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. White-Jacket (1850), ch. 6, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 5, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). Concerning the commodore aboard the Neversink. ~ |
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| The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. iv. 1. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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