Common People Quotes. QuotesGram

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes and weapons from those of the common people, made boxing unfashionable.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.

Common People Quotes

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