The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.
Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.
The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.
Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.
I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing.
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
Noah: I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I...
Duke: I am no one special. Just a common man with common thoughts. I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but in one respect I've succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I've loved...
Habit is the sixth sense that dominates the other five.
Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.
We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.
I have never been able to resist a book about books.
It all came down to money - the great equalizer and common denominator.
I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.
God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.
