I have benefited from the wisdom of Senator Mike Mansfield, and I am sure that I have avoided many dangerous pitfalls by the good commonsense counsel of the President Pro Tem of the Senate, Senator Richard Brevard Russell.
To insure against such possibilities we must of course depend primarily upon the good commonsense of the responsible individuals.
Our children come first, and that's why I established a bipartisan National Commission on Excellence in Education, to help us chart a commonsense course for better education.
We will make sure that every dollar is spent with the thrift and with the commonsense which recognizes how hard the taxpayer worked in order to earn it.
There are certain commonsense limitations upon any expansions of construction work.
But here the progress of the commonsense element of machine opposition seems to halt.
This commonsense way of teaching appealed to Darwin greatly, and although he did not at Cambridge take up botany as a study, yet when Henslow had an out-of-door class he usually managed to go along.
Here is a little commonsense advice given by a physician who is also a great scientist.
After a magnificent entry into the city, Sancho Panza was called upon to give judgment in certain teasing disputes, and this he did with such wit and such wholesome commonsense that he delighted all who heard him.
John's reputation for honesty and sound commonsense had now grown so great at Norton Bury that when he returned there he found himself one of the most respected men in the town.
He could not at all times get on with Captain Dogvane, and old Jack Commonsensewas not much of a traveller.
He plainly intimated that to promote Jack Commonsense would probably bring about discord, which might end even in revolution.
The Spaniards say, my lads, that it is always a good, and safe thing, to search well yourself when anything goes wrong with you, and that is what old Jack Commonsense tells you now.
It is a malicious libel to assert such things, to say nothing of the lack of commonsense in supposing that the commissariat department does not know its own business.
It's rather a queer thing, very handy in some ways and very awkward in others, and you must use it with commonsense or you'll get both yourself and other people into trouble.
His instinct now was to fetch Sissie, whose commonsense had of late impressed him more and more; but he repressed the instinct, holding that he ought to be able to manage the affair alone.
It was contrary to the robust and matter-of-fact commonsense which always marked his actions--if not his theories.
You will never go back, because your powerful commonsense tells you that to return to the Treasury with an income of twenty thousand a year would be grotesque.
Then his soul came to the rescue with its robust commonsense and replied: "Perhaps two wrongs don't make a right, but five hundred wrongs positively must make a right.
Mr. Prohack trembled with an awful apprehension, and asked himself vainly what in the name of commonsense he was doing there, and prayed that Ozzie might be refused admission.
John's commonsense can be trusted, once he examines for himself, and worthy Irishmen lie down in peace.
I ask myself where is the English commonsense of which we have heard so much in Germany?
Now, national solidarity, and more particularly an unquestioning loyalty to the sovereign and the dynasty, is a matter of course and of commonsense necessity with the German people.
It is but the most rudimentary commonsense then, that we be considerate one of another, that we be square and decent one with another.
A new psychology, spiritual science, a more commonsense interpretation of the great revelation of the Christ of Nazareth, all combine to enable us to make this occasional uprising our natural and normal state.
You only want a little commonsense and ordinary smartness, and of that I should say you had plenty.
The straight commonsense counsel, the kind and friendly interest in him and his welfare, and that on the part of a comparative stranger, on whose good offices he had not a shadow of a claim, touched him deeply.
I’ve foundcommonsense a very handy thing in talkin’ always.
He was enthusiastic about the discernment and commonsense of Queen Louise, who had read his book and followed every step of his work with great interest.
The good commonsense of the Swedish common people alone saved them from making German Kultur an integral part of their religion.
It isn't any use wishing," she replied with a downright commonsense that damped Pamela's disposition to be confidential.
If a man trains his mind to think along commonsense lines, his feelings don't run amok.
That Rusticus developed in Marcus a deal of plain, sturdy commonsense there is no doubt.
In this way he lived to be eighty, earnest, yet composed, serene, steering safely clear from Bedlam, by making his commonsense the court of last appeal.
But Comte didn't see that it was plain commonsense that made them great.
In all of which method and plan dwells much plain commonsense to which the world, of necessity, will yet return.
He sided with Mrs. Hutchinson, and sought to bring commonsense to bear and stem the tide of fanaticism.
They form the undertow of that great tidal wave of reason and commonsense called the Italian Renaissance.
Comparatively few people have the courage of Colonel Bumble, so they do not express themselves; but the commonsense of the world is now coming to believe that the law was made for man, and not man for the law.
One ordinary dose of commonsense split up between the two of you wouldn't be a bad thing for the case.
And so how are we to reconcile this present foolishness with his very laudable display of commonsense of a year ago?
All the sterling, classic virtues of industry, frugality and truth-telling were inculcated by this excellent mother, and her strongcommonsense made its indelible impress upon the mind of her son.
I thought you could do the Necessary, and use such commonsense as you perhaps happened to have, in order to push the Enterprise to the pinnacle of Power.
These lectures contain the very essence of Pythagorean philosophy, and include so much practical commonsense that they are still quoted.
Were it not for the commonsense methods of life, and the element of human service, the Christian monastery and probably Christianity itself would not have survived.
Christian Science is a modern adaptation of all that is best in the simplicity and asceticism of Jesus, the commonsense philosophy of Benjamin Franklin, the mysticism of Swedenborg, and the bold pronunciamento of Robert Ingersoll.
Confucius combined the learning and graces of Plato with the sturdy, practicalcommonsense of Socrates.
In reflecting upon the excellences of Rachel he had often said to himself that her unique charm consisted in the fact that she combined the attractiveness of woman with the powerful commonsense of man.
I cannot, as a commonsense person, hope to keep a larger proportion of good resolutions in the future than I have kept in the past.
And what a blessing it will be when the "festivities" (as they are misleadingly called) are over, and we can settle down into commonsense again!
Her commonsense had at last cured her of regarding herself as his murderess.
She held no key to the vast and splendid conundrum, unless by chance her fundamental commonsense was right in its casual suggestion that she was surrounded by lunatics.
Bluff commonsense believes that it explains princedom by declaring itself to be the latter's opponent.
But the difficulty which confronts this normal method of reasoning is to show how the opponent of healthy commonsense and of moral dignity came to be born, and to drag out a remarkably tenacious life for centuries.
For centuries healthy commonsense and moral dignity were non-existent.
