Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold
It's a very common belief [among Mormons] that the Constitution will hang by a thread and the Church will save it.
In conclusion I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country. Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy
A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.
Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.
You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.
The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.
It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.
The Church alone, being the Bride of Christ and having all things in common with her Divine Spouse, is the depository of the truth.
Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
Common sense often makes a good law.
You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.
I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.
The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.
The transcendent experience is common to every culture in the world.
It is extremely disappointing to me to see that even now when leading Democrats and even military veterans try to make our energy future an area of common ground and not a battleground, they are still being rebuffed by dirty energy devotees in both parties and undermined overall by the polluter lobby.
Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.
In all cases where incidental powers are acted upon, the principal and incidental ought to be congenial with each other, and partake of a common nature. The incidental power ought to be strictly subordinate and limited to the end proposed to be obtained by the specified power. In other words, under the name of accomplishing one object which is specified, the power implied ought not to be made to embrace other objects, which are not specified in the constitution.