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First Principles: Every Government Degenerates When Trusted To the Rulers of the People Alone
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Thought For the Day: A Society Which Is Mobile..Must Be Educated to Personal Initiative and Adaptability
“A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability. Otherwise, they will be overwhelmed by the changes … Continue reading
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Between Sleep and Awake
Between Asleep and Awakeby Michael DoyleBetween asleep and awakeIs the recounting ofEvery single mistakeSome deeper than othersSome of hate, some of loveAll of which are heartbreakThey sent me to fight in warI went out a well-trained beastAnd yet somehow I … Continue reading
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Tagged Awake, Between, Brash, Brokenness, Colors, Darkness, Deep, Deeper, Demon, Fight, Harshness, Hate, Heartbreak, Hero, Love, Mistake, More, Outspokenness, Poetry and Poems, Recounting, Repressed Years, Seep, Sleep, Soul, Stagger, Struggle, Tears, Utterance, War, Well-Trained Beast, Wish
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Stand Real
Stand Realby Michael DoyleEvery day it’s the same gameGoing out of our way to avoid blameWe need to live with boldnessInstead of living this lie, they’ve sold usComing up short, just to fall into graceThis is the holiness, that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Battle Is Done, Blame, Boldness, Bread, Construction, Contortion, Desire, Destruction, Disbelief, Drive, Embrace, Grace, Grief, Identity, Immediacy, Insecurity, Integity, Manipulation, Moment of Grace, Poetry and Poems, Price, Prove, Purity, Real, Same Game, Satisfaction, Score, Situation, Social Distortion, Sold, Valuable, Vulnerable
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Thought For the Day: Politics Is the Gentle Art of Getting Votes From the Poor and Campaign Funds From the Rich, By Promising To Protect Each From the Other
“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”- Oscar Ameringer (1870-1943)
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First Principles: Government Is Instituted For the Common Good; For the Protection, Safety, Prosperity, and Happiness of the People
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men…” – John Adams (1776)
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Pretender or Contender
Pretender or Contenderby Michael DoyleDrawing on song lyrics in my dayMakes life special in its own wayThe singer is my daughter, and she’s on fireAs legends are made to grow and conspireA life led in three-part inspirationWe all know the … Continue reading
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Tagged Appetites, Baptism, Best, Bread, Breakthrough, Capable, Connection, Conspire, Contemplation, Contender, Continuity, Daughter, End, Fire, Friend, Hunger, Immersion, Jesus, Legends, Perspiration, Poetry and Poems, Pretender, Raised Awareness, Regret, Resistance, Satan, Singer, Song Lyrics, Special, Spirit, Stone, Striking Foot, Strong Feeling, Susceptible, Temper, Temptation, Tempter, Test, Three Part Inspiration, Tired, Ultimate Truth
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First Principles: I Know No Safe Depository of the Ultimate Powers of the Society But the People Themselves
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: What I Like In A Good Author Isn’t What He Says, But What He Whispers
“What I like in a good author isn’t what he says, but what he whispers.” – Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (1865-1946)
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First Principles: The General Government Is Not To Be Charged With the Whole Power of Making and Administering Laws; Its Jurisdiction Is Limited To Certain Enumerated Objects
“[T]he general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained … Continue reading
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