Who said “Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common…”?

“It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.”

“Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.”

“A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.”

“To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.”

“Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of ''consensus.'' In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics.”

“Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.”

“The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.”

“Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.”

“Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.”

“The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.”

“It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.”