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First Principles: To Render Us Again One People Acting As One Nation Should Be the Object of Every Man Really A Patriot
“To render us again one people acting as one nation should be the object of every man really a patriot.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)
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Tagged Every Man, First Principles, Object, One Nation, One People, Patriot, Render, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: Too Often We Enjoy the Comfort of Opinion Without the Discomfort of Thought
“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” – John F. Kennedy
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Tagged Cliche, Comfort, Discomfort, Enemy of Truth, Facts, Interpretations, John F. Kennedy, Lie, Myth, Opinion, Thought, Thought For the Day
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Thought For the Day: Conscience Asks the Question, Is It Right?…There Comes A Time When One Must Take A Position That Is Neither Safe, Nor Politic, Nor Popular
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Tagged Conscience, Martin Luther King Jr., Politic, Popular, Postion, Question, Right, Safe, Thought For the Day, Time
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First Principles: To Prevent Crimes, Is the Noblest End and Aim of Criminal Jurisprudence. To Punish Them, Is One of the Means Necessary For the Accomplishment
” To prevent crimes, is the noblest end and aim of criminal jurisprudence. To punish them, is one of the means necessary for the accomplishment of this noble end and aim.” – James Wilson (1790)
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Tagged Accomplishment, Aim, Crimes, Criminal Jurisprudence, First Principles, James Wilson, Means, Necessary, Noble, Prevent, Punish
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Interiorly Designed
Interiorly Designedby Michael DoyleThe things that come along to discern thisThat God places use where we can learn goodnessHow then can we make the most of it and embraceWhere God has put us in our time and spaceTo make the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abrasive, Accord, Adversary, Advocate, Appeal, Approach, Arguments, Authority, Basis, Bind, Blind, Blindness, Bridge, Brink, Captive, Challenges, Change, Changing Conversation, Choose, Christ, Circumspection, Contemplation, Convince, Damascus, Dark of Night, Design, Destination, Destruction, Discern, Embrace, Every Single Thought, Face-To-Face, Fight, Find, Gentleness, God, Good, Goodness, Grace, Heart, Holy, Hour, Humility, Inside, Interior Design, Kindness, Ledge, Legacy, Lessons, Life Stealing, Light, Linking, Lives, Love's Power, Magnification, Mind, Obedient, Oblvious, Obvious, Outward, Path, Pattern, Paul, Peace, Persausive, Persecution, Pivot, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Prcoess, Radical Difference, Resolution, Resolve, Reveal, Reverence, Right Intentions, Root, Saved, See, Share, Signification, Soul, Strongest Thoughts, Students, Tactful, Tension, The Bible, The Gospel, Think, Thrust, Time and Space, Traces, Truth, Wisdom, World
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Thought For the Day: Tyranny Seldom Announces Itself….A Whole Government, Even A Democratically Elected One, May Be Tyrannical
“Tyranny seldom announces itself. … In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.” – Joseph Sobran (1946-2010)
First Principles: The Best and Only Safe Road To Honor, Glory, and True Dignity Is Justice
“The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.” – George Washington (1779)
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Tagged Best, Dignity, First Principles, George Washington, Glory, Honor, Justice, Only, Road, Safee, True
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First Principles: I Place Economy Among the First and Most Important of Republican Virtues, and Public Debt As the Greatest of the Dangers To Be Feared
“I … place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)
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Tagged Dangers, Economy, Fear, First, First Principles, Greatest, Most Important, Public Debt, Republican Virtues, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: Kindness In Ourselves Is the Honey That Blunts the Sting of Unkindness In Another
“Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.” -Walter Savage Landor, writer and activist (30 Jan 1775-1864)
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Tagged Another, Blunt, Honey, Kindness, Ourselves, Sting, Thought For the Day, Unkindness, Water Savage Landor
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