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“God must love the common man, he made so many of them”
Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)
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“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”
Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)
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“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.”
G. K. Chesterton quotes (English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936)
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“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.”
jeffblum1 William Beveridge quotes (Indian born English Economist and Social Reformer, who helped shape Great Britain's post-World War II welfare state policies and institutions through his Social Insurance and Allied Services. 1879-1963)

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“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.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset quotes (Spanish philosopher and humanist , 1883-1955)
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“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.”
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“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.”
Herbert Hoover quotes (American President, 1874-1964)

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“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.”
George Santayana quotes (Spanish born American Philosopher, Poet and Humanist who made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy and literary criticism. 1863-1952)

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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.”
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“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”
Walt Whitman quotes ( Poet, 1819-1892)
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