the common people
Example Sentences
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It’s playing with fire, and the common people will not be unscathed.
From Slate • May 15, 2026
Mencken famously said, “is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025
Mencken once said, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2024
It is the common people who are suffering, she told me, in tears.
From BBC • May 6, 2024
When danger suddenly approached, he needed only to protect himself from a few of his subjects, but if he had had the common people hostile, this would not have been sufficient.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
