Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.