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First Principles: The Spirit of Resistance To Government Is So Valuable On Certain Occasions, That I Wish It To Be Always Kept Alive
“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.” – Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams
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Thought For the Day: The Warp Speed Project Appears To Be A Dramatic Success
“The Warp Speed project appears to be a dramatic success. I pray that it will be. Although I’ve been a frequent critic of this administration, I want to give them credit for organizing this effectively, and delivering a vaccine in … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazing, Deliver, Dramatic, Effective, Pandemic, Senator Dick Durbin, Success, Thought For the Day, Timely Way, Vaccine, Warp Speed Project
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First Principles: I Hope Some Future Day Will Bring Me the Happiness of Seeing My Family Again Collected Under Our Own Roof, Happy In Ourselves and Blessed In Each Other
“I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.” – Abigail Adams (1784)
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Thought For the Day: For All Sad Words of Tongue and Pen, the Saddest Are These, “It Might Have Been”
“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been’.” – John Greenleaf Whittier, poet (17 Dec 1807-1892)
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Lessons From A Foggy Eve
Lessons From A Foggy Eveby Michael DoyleI.Up at the old North PoleThere’s an awful lot of snowThere’s something to this time of yearA time of hope and peace and good cheerThat is except for that yearOf the big snow that … Continue reading
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Tagged Believe In Your Dreams, Best Day, Big Snow, Clarisse, Conform, Dash, Day, Dentist, Difference, Don't Quit, Father, Find, Fit In, Foggy, For Us, Glows, Gossip, Grand, Happiness, Hermie, Heroes, History, Hope and Peace, Lessons, Love, Love Us, Magnificient, Misft, Names, No Way To Win, North, North Pole, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Reindeer, Room, Rudolph, Say, Shiny Nose, Sleigh, Smallness, Snow, Special Way, Suppose, Time of Year, Tomorrow, Toy Making, Understand
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To Simply Believe
To Simply Believeby Michael DoyleThe Square root of the possibleOf all that we can achieveIs to have some gumption And to simply believeThrowing caution to the windTaking chances we defendMore on odds approximatedAnd guaranteed seldom as estimatedThe magic isn’t just … Continue reading
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Tagged Achieve, Afraid, Again, Approximate, Believe, Believing, Best Capability, Calculation, Capable, Choose, Closed Eyes, Dedication, Destination, Dreams, Estimate, Fear, Formulate, Gumption, Hard, Heart, Hearts, Heaven Sends, Imagination, Journey, Know, Magic, Mend, Mind, Mistletoe, No Telling, Odds, Persevere, Photograph, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Possible, Quite the Cost, Reality, See, Seeing the Way, Shared Smile, Simple, Square Root, Story Ends, Taking Chances, Things In Life, Throw Caution To the Wind, Together, Truth, Unafraid, What's Lost, Worth While
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Thought For the Day: There Are No Easy Answers…We Must Have the Courage To Do What We Know Is Morally Right
“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right. … You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the … Continue reading
First Principles: The Crisis Is Arrived When We Must Assert Our Rights or Submit To Every Imposition That Can Be Heaped Upon Us, Until Custom and Use Shall Make Us As Tame and Abject Slaves
“The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves.” – George Washington (1774)
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Tagged Abject, Assert, Crisis, Custom, First Principles, George Washington, Heaped, Imposition, On Us, Rights, Slaves, Submit, Tame, Use
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For Bill of Rights Day
For Bill of Rights Dayby Michael DoyleTo embark on teaching history of the pastEngages us with the things that lastThe best way of doing this of courseIs to teach things right from the sourceBefore going further, let me just sayHappy … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: Crime Is Contagious. If the Government Becomes A Lawbreaker, It Breeds Contempt For the Law
“Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.” – Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)
