Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic.
I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.
Just as you should never confuse the law with common justice, intelligence should not be confused with common sense. Some of the brightest people in the world have no idea how to cross the road.
We must return to optimism in our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.
The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
LOVE is made up of a strong affection and patience whiles LUST is made up of a strong affection and impatience. Affection is common to them, but patience is not common.
The governments and their policies have failed, the church is the last hope of the common man, I value a church that is a home for all.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.
Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.
Bubbles have quite a few things in common, but housing bubbles have a spectacular thing in common, and that is every one of them is considered unique and different.
Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority.
Scarlett: [to Ashley] Dreams, dreams always dreams with you, never common sense.
Common sense says that if something possessed the ability to create itself from nothing, then that something wasn't nothing, it was something - a very intelligent creative power of some sort.
The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.
