I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.

If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.