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First Principles: It Is the Duty of Every Good Citizen To Use All the Opportunities Which Occur To Him, For Preserving Documents Relating To the History of Our Country
“It is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.” – Thomas Jefferson (1823)
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Tagged Country, Documents, Duty, First Principles, Good Citizen, History, Occur, Opportunities, Preserve, Relate, Thomas Jefferson
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In the Providence of Seneca
In the Providence of Senecaby Michael DoyleIn the age of ancient tyrannyWhen Rome had lost its libertyEven a good man might compromiseFor the partial good seen in his eyesThough at times, it took its tollTo hide his better angels in … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute, Age, All That Happens, Ancient, Beg For Mercy, Belong, Better Angels, Bind, Blessing, Breath of Life, Code, Complexity, Compromise, Confronted, Correspondence, Creation, Cringe, Death, Destroy, Deviation, Divinity, Done, E, Epistles, Every, Evil, Evil For Evil, Eyes, Face to Face, Facing Adversity, Fast, Felt, Fiddle, Final Analysis, For Good, Full, Garment, God, God Works, Good, Good Man, Good Person, Greater, Grow, Hide, His Creation, Hold True, Just, Kill, Knowing, Liberty, Life, Lost, Mankind, Moral Relativists, Mortal, Name of God, Nation, Natural Law, Nero, No Choice, Nobility, Order, Partial Good, Path, Perfection, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Providence, Regardless, Return, Right and Wrong, Right Way, Righteousness, Role, Rom, Rule, Satisfaction, Seam, Self, Seneca, Sense, Setting Sun, Shade, Shadows, Showing, Situational Ethics, Slavery, Socrates, Sonorous, Soul, Strains, Subjugation, Test of Evil, Testimony, Thoughts, Time, Times, Toll, Traces, Tyranny, Understood, Universe
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First Principles: The Declaration of Independence Rests … On The Harmonizing Sentiments of the Day, Whether Expressed In Conversation, In Letters, Printed Essays, Or In the Elementary Books of Public Right, As Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, Et al.
“All [the] authority [of the Declaration of Independence] rests … on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether expressed in conversation, in letters, printed essays, or in the elementary books of public right, as Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, &c.” – Thomas Jefferson, … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: To Fall In Love Is To Create A Religion That Has A Fallible God
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” – Jorge Luis Borges, writer (24 Aug 1899-1986)
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Tagged Create, Fall, Fallible, God, In Love, Jorge Luis Borges, Reliigion, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: I Would Rather Be Politically Buried Than To Be Hypocritically Immortalized
“I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.” – Davy Crockett, frontiersman, soldier, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Beaten, Course, Davy Crockett, Elected, Fearless, Hypocritically, Immortal, Independent, Man, Measures, Never Regret, Not Men, Politically Buried, Principles, Puppy Dog, Support, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: The Person Who Will Submit To Wear A Shackle, Condemns the Noblest Gift of Heaven and Impiously Affronts the God That Made Us Free
“The man who meanly will submit to wear a shackle, condemns the noblest gift of heaven, and impiously affronts the God that made him free. … Ease and prosperity (though pleasing for a day) have often sunk a people into … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Affront, Condemn, Dr. Joseph Warren, First Principles, Free, Gift, God, Heaven, Noble, Shackle, Submit, Worthy
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Trying To Bottle Up
Trying To Bottle Upby Michael DoyleTrying to bottle up all the troubleStraight talking never ever doubleIs something that is next to impossibleSomething of which I know I’m incapableBut, I would do almost anything To keep you safe from all that … Continue reading
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Tagged Anything, Bottle Up, Correct, Cross, Crucify, Daughters, Dignify, Double, Everything, False Move, Father, Guilty, Imperfect, Impossible, Impress, Improve, Incapable, Know, Loss, Loved, Pardon Me, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pound of Flesh, Safe, Straight Talk, Strong, Trouble, Wait, Wrong
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What Fools Lament…
What Fools Lament…by Michael DoyleWhat fools lament, wise men cherishForever vigilant that our ideals won’t perishLiving life in recycled cinema outtakes playedWe stand up boldly and unafraidHolding tight against things that shouldn’t beThe quietly spoken pillars of our communityShed chances … Continue reading
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Tagged Artificial, Best Run, Bold, Chance, Cherish, Cinema, Cling To, Community, Confuse, Cut Deep, Dropped Mic, Fifteen Minutes, Fool, Hold Tight, Hounds, Hunt, Ideals, Keep, Know, Lament, Living Life, Outtakes, Perish, Photograph, Pillars, Pitch, Poem, Poetry, Questions, Quiet Spoken, Recycled, Same Page, Singer, Stage, Stand up, Stygian, Tree of Liberty, Unafraid, Vigilant, Want, Wise Men
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 