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First Principles: Our Liberty Depends On Our Education, Our Laws, and Habits…It Is Founded On Morals and Religion Whose Authority Reigns In the Heart
“Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs … Continue reading
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Tagged Authority, Education, First Principles, Fisher Ames, Founded, Govern, Habit, Heart, Influence, Law, Liberty, Morals, Public Opinion, Reign, Religion, Rulers
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Thought For the Day: Silence Is Not Always A Sign of Wisdom, But Babbling Is Ever A Mark of Folly
“Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly.” – Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate (29 Aug 1862-1949)
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Tagged Always, Babbling, Folly, Mark, Maurice Maeterlinck, Sign, Silence, Thought For the Day, Wisdom
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Light And Darkness
Light and Darknessby Michael DoyleI approach my inner self with intimationLooking for deeper thoughts of originationSo much of who I am comes from ancestral careThen living life as bold as I might dareWheels spin inside on subjects of light and … Continue reading
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Tagged Accept, Ancestral Care, Approach, Beauty, Best, Boundless Feelings, Dare, Deeper Thoughts, Express, Eyes, Failure, Imagination, Impractical Hopes, Indulging, Inner Self, Intimation, Lashing Out, Light and Darkness, Light and Sight, Living Inside, Living Life, Mastery, Origination, Pen to Paper, Perfection, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Right, Self-Examined, Stretch, Struggle, Subject, Success, Surprise, Thoughts, Truth, Vitality, Wheels, World's Harshness
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First Principles: To Model Our Political System Upon Speculations of Lasting Tranquility, Is To Calculate On the Weaker Springs of the Human Character
“To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
Thought For the Day: When You’re Traveling, You Are What You Are Right There and Then. People Don’t Have Your Past To Hold Against You. No Yesterdays On the Road
“When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat-Moon, travel writer (b. 27 Aug 1939)
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Tagged Hold, Past, People, Right There, Road, Thought For the Day, Travel, William Least Heat-Moon, Yesterdays
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First Principles: The Ways and Means Ought Always To Face the Public Engagements; …Our Appropriations Should Ever Go Hand In Hand With Our Promises
“There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises. To say that the … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: The Best Index To A Person’s Character Is (a) How He Treats People Who Can’t Do Him Any Good, and (b) How He Treats People Who Can’t Fight Back
“The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.” – Abigail Van Buren (August 1980)
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First Principles: The God Who Gave Us Life Gave Us Liberty At the Same Time; the Hand of Force May Destroy, But Cannot Disjoin Them
“The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” – Thomas Jefferson (1774)
