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First Principles: The Name of American, Which Belongs To You In Your National Capacity, Must Always Exalt the Just Pride of Patriotism
“The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.” – George Washington, Farewell Address
Keeping Faith Through Storms
Keeping Faith Through Stormsby Michael DoyleWalking righteous amidst life’s corruptionThe faithful holds true without disruptionLike Noah and his ark saving our humanityThe chaos of new frontiers heals with peace, not vanityToo often, we live in coffins of our own makingWhile … Continue reading
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Tagged Ark, Buoyant, Coffins, Compare, Condemnation, Corruption, Dedication, Deluge, Demand, Desire, Disruption, Dominate, Drought, Faith, Faithful, Fault Finders, Frontier, God, God's Reasoning, Grumblers, Heart Breaking, Humanity, Keep, Make, New Day, Noah, Patient, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prepare, Reasons, Rest, Righteous, Shining Light, Storm, Tears, Treasure, Understood, Unlikely, Vain, Vanity, Waters
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First Principles: This Constitution Is the Most Free One, and By Far the Best, Now Existing On the Earth
“…that the King with and by the authority of parliament, is able to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to limit and bind the crown, and the descent, limitation, inheritance and government thereof” is founded on the principles of liberty and … Continue reading
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Tagged Argument, Civil Government, Common Sense, Conssent, Constitution, Dominion, First Principles, Free Man, God, James Otis, King, Laws and Statutes, Legislature, Mankind, Nature, Parliment, Principles of Liberty, Represented, Rights of British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1763), Tax, Unlimited Passive Obedience
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Thought For Another Day: We Must Dissent From the Fear, the Hatred, and the Mistrust
“We must dissent from the fear, the hatred, and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that buried its head in the sand waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Better, Dissent, Fear, Hatred, Mistrust, Nation, No Choice, Thought For the Day, Thurgood Marshall, We
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Bitter Truth Empty
Bitter Truth Emptyby Michael DoyleI come from the tribe of the dead soulSpirits lifted in the game of rock-n-rollThere is living yet to be doneIn the name of the father and the sonAnd yet, in the mirrored reflectionA sprawl spins … Continue reading
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Tagged Banality, Believe, Bitter Truth, Conviction, Creative Force, Dead, Die, Direction, Done, Dribble, Echo, Ego, Empty, Essence, Eviction, Eyes, Father, Game, Gone, History, Human Being, Lay Down, Living, Meaning, Music, Mystry, Name, New Sky, Nothing, Nothing Left To Say, Originality, Pass, Poetry and Poems, Reflection, Remorse, Reverberations, Rock-n-Roll, Shrivel, Simply, Single Shred, Something, Son, Soul, Spirt, STuck, Surprise, Tomorrow, Tribe, Truth, Urban Decay, Vacuum, Watch
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Thought For the Day: Where-ever Law Ends, Tyranny Begins
“Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.” – John Locke, in Two Treatises of Government (1689)
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Tagged Begin, End, John Locke, Law, Thought For the Day, Two Treatises of Government (1689), Tyranny, Wherever
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Thought of the Day: The Way To Stop Discrimination On the Basis of Race Is To Stop Discriminating On the Basis of Race
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” – Chief Justice John Roberts
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Tagged Basis, Chief Justice John Roberts, Discriminating, Discrimination, Race, Stop, Thought For the Day, Way
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First Principles: A Free People Claim Their Rights As Derived From the Laws of Nature, and Not As the Gift of their Chief Magistrate
“A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.” – Thomas Jefferson (1774)
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Tagged Chief Magistrate, Claim, First Principles, Free People, Gift, Laws of Nature, Rights, Thomas Jefferson
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