Common sense isn't.
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| Blessing of your heart, you brew good Ale. |
| ~William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona ~ |
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| Human relations based on mutual compassion and love are fundamentally important to human happiness. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, July 6, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 423. ~ |
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| Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan. Canto ii. Stanza 178. ~ |
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| Drink, pretty creature, drink! |
| ~ William Wordsworth, The Pet Lamb. ~ |
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| Whoever harms the harmless or oppresses the innocent and just is like a fool tossing dust into the wind - his wrongdoing will fly back in his face. |
| ~Evil ~ |
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| I wish also, in revising the constitution, we may throw into that section, which interdicts the abuse of certain powers in the state legislatures, some other provisions of equal if not greater importance than those already made. The words, "No state shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, &c." were wise and proper restrictions in the constitution. I think there is more danger of those powers being abused by the state governments than by the government of the United States. The same may be said of other powers which they possess, if not controuled by the general principle, that laws are unconstitutional which infringe the rights of the community. I should therefore wish to extend this interdiction, and add, as I have stated in the 5th resolution, that no state shall violate the equal right of conscience, freedom of the press, or trial by jury in criminal cases; because it is proper that every government should be disarmed of powers which trench upon those particular rights. I know in some of the state constitutions the power of the government is controuled by such a declaration, but others are not. I cannot see any reason against obtaining even a double security on those points; and nothing can give a more sincere proof of the attachment of those who opposed this constitution to these great and important rights, than to see them join in obtaining the security I have now proposed; because it must be admitted, on all hands, that the state governments are as liable to attack these invaluable privileges as the general government is, and therefore ought to be as cautiously guarded against. |
| ~ (James Madison) Proposing Bill of Rights to House, June 8, 1789 ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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