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«There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.»
Author: Ernest Bevin | Keywords: calmly, common man, folk, prevented
«We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.»
«Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.»
«The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.»
«God must love the common man, he made so many of them»
«When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.»
«The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.»
«You have weighed the stars in the balance, and grasped the skies in a span: / Take, if you must have answer, the word of a common man.»
«The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.»
«The great poems, Shakespeare's included, are poisonous to the idea of the pride and dignity of the common man, the life-blood of democracy»

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