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Thought For the Day: The Second Amendment Was Given To Us As Protection Against Tyranny By the Federal Government and the Congress of the United States
“Recent school shootings have lured ill-informed Americans into a war on our Second Amendment guarantees, led by the nation’s tyrants and their useful idiots. … The Second Amendment was given to us as protection against tyranny by the federal government … Continue reading
First Principles: Guard With Jealous Attention the Public Liberty. Suspect Every One Who Approaches That Jewel.
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” – Patrick Henry (1788)
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Tagged Attention, Downright Force, First Principles, Give Up That Force, Guard, Jewel, Patrick Henry, Preserve, Public Liberty, Ruined, Suspect
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Galatian Credibility
Galatian Credibilityby Michael DoyleIn our leadership and our abilityTo lead is limited to our credibilityThis is something important to knowIf we are are to keep our ability to growCalled to lead in our capacityCalled to display this sensibilityIntegrity is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Capacity, Competent, Credibility, Galatians, Grow, Integrity, Know, Leadership, Poetry and Poems, Sensibility
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Thought For the Day: The Only Good Bureaucrat Is One With A Pistol At His Head. Put It In His Hand and It’s Good-Bye To the Bill of Rights
“The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.” – H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
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Tagged Bill of Rights, Good Bureaucrat, Good-Bye, H.L. Mencken, Hand, Head, Pistol, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: The Ordaining of Laws In Favor of One Part of the Nation, To the Prejudice and Oppression of Another, Is Certainly the Most Erroneous and Mistaken Policy
“The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy.” – Benjamin Franklin (1774)
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Tagged Another, Benjamin Franklin, Certain, Erroneous, First Principles, Laws, Mistaken, Nation, Oppression, Ordain, Policy, Prejudice
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Thought For the Day: There’s No Question That In Some Big Ways, This Administration – Including the President and Some of His Closest Economic Advisors – Got Inflation Wrong
“There’s no question that in some big ways, this administration — including the president and some of his closest economic advisors — got inflation wrong.” – CNN White House Correspondent MJ Lee
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Tagged Biden, Big Ways, Economic Advisors, Inflation, MJ Lee, No Question, This Administration, Thought For the Day, Wrong
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First Principles: No Government, Any More Than An Individual, Will Long Be Respected Without Being Truly Respectable
“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.” – James Madison (1788)
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Be the Answer
Be the Answerby Michael DoyleThe pain feltIn waves dealtAs the will to liveBegins as you forgivePushing off from the edgeNormalcy over the ledgeLiving life of full intentionWhile paying right attentionIn waves of positive affirmationThat serve as confirmationLiving by the seat … Continue reading
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Tagged Abudance, Answer, Community, Confirmation, Contribution, Edge, Forgive, Full Intention, Ledge, Living Bridge, Living in Service, Normalcy, One Solution, Open Heart, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Positive Affirmation, Pushing Off, Ridge, Right Attention, Seat of the Soul, Waves, Will To Live
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Thought For the Day: The Time Will Come When People Will Not Put Up With Sound Doctrine
“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They … Continue reading
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Tagged 2 Timothy 4:3-5, Away, Desires, Endure, Hear, Itching Ears, Keep Your Head, Myths, Paul, People, Sound Doctrine, Teachers, Thought For the Day, Time, Truth
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First Principles: The Foundation of National Morality Must Be Laid In Private Families
“The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. … In vain are schools, academies, and universities instituted, if loose principles and licentious habits are impressed upon children in their earliest years.” – John Adams (1778)
