Common sense isn't.
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| When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets." |
| ~ Plutarch, Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders. 62 Eudæmonidas. ~ |
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| Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, in saying "Repent ye," etc., intended that the whole life of believers should be penitence. |
| ~ -First Thesis, Martin Luther ~ |
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| [W]e must deny the fact, that slaves are considered merely as property, and in no respect whatever as persons. The true state of the case is, that they partake of both these qualities: being considered by our laws, in some respects, as persons, and in other respects as property. In being compelled to labor, not for himself, but for a master; in being vendible by one master to another master; and in being subject at all times to be restrained in his liberty and chastised in his body, by the capricious will of another, the slave may appear to be degraded from the human rank, and classed with those irrational animals which fall under the legal denomination of property. In being protected, on the other hand, in his life and in his limbs, against the violence of all others, even the master of his labor and his liberty; and in being punishable himself for all violence committed against others, the slave is no less evidently regarded by the law as a member of the society, not as a part of the irrational creation; as a moral person, not as a mere article of property. |
| ~ (James Madison) Federalist, no. 54 ~ |
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| Our security depends on the Allied Powers winning against aggressors. The Axis Powers intend to destroy democracy, it is anathema to them. We cannot provide that aid if the public are against it; therefore, it is our responsibility to persuade the public that aid to the victims of aggression is aid to American security. I expect the members of my administration to take every opportunity to speak to this issue wherever they are invited to address public forums in the weeks ahead. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Interview with former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, University of Illinois, Urbana (Spring 1958). For several years beginning in 1937 the President was determined to convince Americans via his press conferences and public addresses that Nazism and fascism were menaces to the democratic way of life and the very security of the United States. This was the first time that he assigned that task in addition to the members of his administration. This was Perkins’ recollection of what FDR told the Cabinet before the Lend-Lease legislation was to be acted upon by the Congress in 1940. ~ |
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| Spare your breath to cool your porridge. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. v. ~ |
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| To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, "Prithee," said Cleomenes, "give me cocks that will kill fighting." |
| ~ Plutarch, Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders. 61 Cleomenes. ~ |
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| His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 591. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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