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Monthly Archives: June 2021
Thought For the Day: Since September 11, An Entire Generation of Young Americans Has Gained New Understanding of the Value of Freedom and Its Cost and Duty and Its Sacrifice
“Since September 11, an entire generation of young Americans has gained new understanding of the value of freedom and its cost and duty and its sacrifice. The battle is now joined on many fronts. We will not waver, we will … Continue reading
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Tagged Cost, Duty, Entire Generation, First Principles, Freedom, Gained, George W. Bush, New Understanding, Sacrifice, September 11, Value, Young Americans
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Thought For the Day: Politics Is Fluid, Elections Are Multitudinous, and Voter Behavior Is Often Too Complicated and Subtle To Be Reduced To Group Identity
“Politics is fluid, elections are multitudinous, and voter behavior is often too complicated and subtle to be reduced to group identity. Ethnicity doesn’t determine elections — ideas do. And as Democrats have been realizing to their chagrin, the ideas embodied … Continue reading
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Tagged Chagrin, Complicated, Democrats, Determine Elections, Elections, Ethnicity, Fluid, Foreign Born, Ideas, Jeff Jacoby, Messaging, Multitudinous, Non-White, Politics, Powerful Appeal, Republican Campaign, Subtle, Thought For the Day, Voter Behavior, Voters
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First Principles: Liberty Is To Faction What Air Is To Fire, An Ailment Without Which It Instantly Expires
“Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.”– James Madison
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Tagged Ailment, Air, Expire, Fire, First Principles, Instant, James Madison, Liberty
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Thought For the Day: The Most Dangerous Untruths Are Truths Moderately Distorted
“The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
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Tagged Dangerous, Distorted, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Moderately, Most, Thought For the Day, Truths, Untruths
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First Principles: What Is the Most Sacred Duty…In A Republic?…An Inviolable Respect for the Constitution and Laws – the First Growing Out of the Last
“If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws — the first growing out of the last.” … Continue reading
In Celebration of National Flag Day
Long may she wave, longer still may we pray, keeping in mind our humbleness before the grave and ever mindful of the freedoms and liberties hard won in our day!
Is Reverence So Alien?
Is Reverence So Alien?by Michael DoyleAnd there it is againStated with righteous persistenceTrust is the necessary bondBehind peaceful coexistenceToo may ills bleed from greedArising in forms of aggressionPeace is easy enough to heedWhere love answers the questionsConflict splinters away all … Continue reading
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Tagged Alien, Answers, Anyone, Beliefs, Burning Bright, Cling, Conflct, Consumption, Contemplation, Darkness, Easy Enough, Evil, Faith, Forms of Aggression, Goodness, Greed, Hard To Believe, Heed, Light, Love, Negativity, Peace, Peacefulness, Poetry and Poems, Questions, Redemption, Resumption, Reverence, Righteous Persistence, Rule, Serendipity, Splinters, Tight, Too Many Ills, Trust, Unity, Waiting, World
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Thought For the Day: The Bitterest Tears Shed Over Graves Are For Words Left Unsaid and Deeds Left Undone
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (14 Jun 1811-1896)
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Tagged Bitterest, Deeds, Graves, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Left Undone, Left Unsaid, Tears, Thought For the Day, Words
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First Principles: We Have More Machinery of Government Than Is Necessary, Too Many Parasites Living On the Labor of the Industrious
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Ludlow, 1824
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Tagged First Principles, Government, Industrious, Labor, Living, Machinery, Necessary, Thomas Jefferson, Too Many Parasites, We
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First Principles: It Is the Citizens Choice…Whether They Will Be Respectable and Prosperous, Or Contemptable and Miserable As A Nation
“It is … [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as a Nation. This is the time of their political probation; this is the moment when the eyes … Continue reading
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