The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.