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"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office." »H.L. Mencken
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"It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office." »H. L. Mencken
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"I was looking for an american symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the american flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. (speaking about the dress she wore made of american Express Cards)" »Lizzy Gardiner
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"Our american values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings." »Jimmy Carter
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"I was born an american I will live an american I shall die an american." »Daniel Webster
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"I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an american." »Daniel Webster
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"Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language." »William John Bennett
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"The quality of american life must keep pace with the quantity of american goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor." »John F. Kennedy
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"As long as I am an american citizen and american blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject." »Elija Lovejoy
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"american foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of american influence into generations of democratic peace." »George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
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"Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love." »Dagobert D. Runes
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"Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today." »Leonid Brezhnev
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"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys." »Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
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"The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native american, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the american quilt." »Jesse Louis Jackson
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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security." »Thomas Paine, in his "The Rights of Man" (1791)
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"God must hate common people, because he made them so common." »Philip Wylie
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"The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!" »Oscar Wilde
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"We really are 15 countries, and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black american in Durham -- both are certain they are the real american." »Maya Angelou
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"We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an american and nothing else, or he is not an american at all." »Teddy Roosevelt
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"School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"The only reason I made a commercial for american Express was to pay for my american Express bill." »Peter Ustinov
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"What then is the american, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an american." »Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American?
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"It's counter to common sense, but common sense is only based on a very small subset of the universe." »Ian J. Davenport
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"But what do we mean by the american Revolution Do we mean the american War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people." »Geoffrey F. Albert
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"Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club." »Thomas Huxley
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"common sense is not so common." »Voltaire
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""Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace." »Austin Farrar
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"Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)" »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"If american men are obsessed with money, american women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring." »Marya Mannes
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