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First Principles: The Army (Considering the Irritable State It Is In, Its Suffering and Composition) Is A Dangerous Instrument To Play With
“The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.” – George Washington (1783)
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Tagged Composition, Danger, First Principles, George Washington, Instrument, Irritable State, Play, Suffer, The Army
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Muddle Through Hymn
Muddle Through Hymnby Michael DoyleWe need Jesus, here and nowAs it is, as we muddle throughThe world might treat us foulWe’ll get through it me and youAllowing Christ to the magnifiedWe live our lives sanctifiedIn our hearts, lives our battle … Continue reading
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Tagged Alar of Our Lives, Battle Cry, Digniy, Faith, Fire, Hym, Inspire, Jesus, Magnify, Muddle Through, Poetry and Poems, Sanctify, The World
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Thought For the Day: Once the Central Planners Are In Complete Control, You’re Just As Dead If They’re Accidentally Wrong As You Would Be If They Intended It
“The [World Economic Forum] want total power to address ‘crises.’ We must remember that throughout history, the worst crises faced by humanity — wars, famines, plagues, starvation, slavery, death on a widespread scale — were either caused by those in … Continue reading
First Principles: The Care of Human Life and Happiness, and Not Their Destruction, Is the First and Only Legitimate Object of Good Government
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson (1809)
First Principles: Facts Are Stubborn Things
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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Tagged Alter, Dicatates, Evidence, Fact, Facts, First Principles, Inclinations, John Adams, Law, Passions, Stable, State of Facts, Stubborn Things, Whatever, Wishes
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Thought For the Day: All Life Is Sacred
“There Is A Seamless Web to Life…All Life Is Sacred…”. – Nat Hentoff
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Tagged All, Life, Na Hentoff, Sacred, Seamless, Thought For the Day, Web
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First Principles: Nil Desperandum – Never Despair. That Is A Motto For You and Me. All Are Not Dead; and Where There Is A Spark of Patriotic Fire, We Will Rekindle It
“Nil desperandum, — Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.” – Samuel Adams
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Thought For the Day: We Didn’t Love Freedom Enough. And Even More – We Had No Awareness of the Real Situation…We Purely and Simply Deserved Everything That Happened Afterward
“We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more — we had no awareness of the real situation… We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” – Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)
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Tagged 1917, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Awareness, Deserve, Freedom, Happen, If, Love, Ouburst, Pleasure, Real Situation, Submit, Thought For the Day
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