“If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else”
Thomas Jefferson
“I very much hope that common sense and intelligence will prevail and an agreement will be reached in the coming days,”
Javier Solana
“I hope common sense will prevail.”
Frederic Thiriez
“I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.”
“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.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Common sense told us that when you put a big tax on something, the people will produce less of it. So we cut the people's tax rates, and the people produced more than ever before."”
Ronald Reagan
“Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult”
William Somerset Maugham
