Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.
How is it that labels like 'centrist' and 'moderate,' which common sense tells us should reflect the views of a majority of Americans, have come to be applied to those who represent minority interests and opinions?
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
The failure to invest in youth reflects a lack of compassion and a colossal failure of common sense.
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.
With the first commandment, Mohammed tried to imprison common sense. And with the second commandment, the beautiful, romantic side of mankind was enslaved.