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More Than Our Beginning
More Than Our Beginningby Michael DoyleIt’s more than our beginningI feel like first time really winningYour ways fill me up with loveAlways that something I’m dreaming ofDancing with you in my alwaysDreaming of you in all of my daysLooking into … Continue reading
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Tagged A Thousand Dreams, Always, Amazing Eyes, Beginning, Blessed, Burst, Dancing With You, Days, Dream, Dreaming of You, Eternal Fire, First Time, Guided Home, Lady, Love, More, My Desire, My Friend, My Heart, Never End, Night, Passion, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Stars, Winning, Your Light, Your Ways
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Thought For the Day: We Are Obliged To Respect, Defend and Maintain the Common Bonds of Union and Fellowship That Exist Among All Members of the Human Race
“We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Tagged All Members, Common Bonds, Defend, Fellowship, Human Race, Maintain, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Oblige, Respect, Thought For the Day, Union, We
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First Principles: A People Who Would Stand Fast In Their Liberty Should Furnish Themselves With Weapons Proper For Their Defense and Learn the Use of Them
“A people who would stand fast in their liberty, should furnish themselves with weapons proper for their defence, and learn the use of them. It is indeed an hard case, that those who are happy in the blessings of providence, … Continue reading
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Tagged Defense, First Principles, Furnish, Learn, Liberty, Peopole, Simeon Howard, Stand Fast, Use, Weapons
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Thought For the Day: Women Belong In All Places Where Decisions Are Being Made. It Shouldn’t Be That Women Are the Exception
“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg I strongly believe that President Trump should name a conservative, rule of law woman. Let’s see if he … Continue reading
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Tagged All Places, Belong, Decisions, Exception, Made, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Shouldn't Be, Thought For the Day, Women
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First Principles: It Must Never Be Forgotten That the Liberties of the People Are Not So Safe Under the Gracious Manner of Government As By the Limitation of Power
“It must never be forgotten…that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.” – Richard Henry Lee
Thought For the Day: Give Me the Liberty To Know, To Utter and To Argue Freely According to Conscience, Above All Liberties
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” ― John Milton in Areopagitica You may read this classic work for free here: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/areopagitica/text.html
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Tagged Above All Liberties, According, Areopagitica, Argue, Conscience, Freely, Give, John Milton, Know, Liberty, Thought For the Day, Utter
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First Principles: ‘Tis the Business of Little Minds To Shrink; But He Whose Heart Is Firm and Whose Conscience Approves His Conduct Will Pursue His Principles Unto Death
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, … Continue reading
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Tagged Approves, Business, Conduct, Conscience, Death, Distress, Firm, First Principles, Gather Strength, Grow Brave, Heart, Little Minds, Love, Principles, Pursue, Reflection, Shrink, Smile, The Person, Thomas Paine, Trouble
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Covid and the Constitution
Covid and the Constitutionby Michael DoyleVoices arrayed together against an institutionOut of control of the reining in by the ConstitutionChecks and balances swept away along with our rightsStill, we ride forward like beleaguered knightsStay at home orders meant for communicable … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Amendment, Abeyance, Abuse of Authority, Adversity, Aghast, America, Array, Ask, Beautiful, Beleaguered Knights, Best Practices, Blight, Bureaucrats, Case, Casinos, Chains, Checks and Balances, Churches, Closed Down, Constitution, Contrarian, Conversation, Cost of Silence, Course, Covid, Crown, Current Crisis, Death or Liberty, Decision, Deliberation, Desperate Situation, Dictate, Draconian Regulation, Economy, Effective, Embrace, Emergency Police Powers, Enforcement Issues, Executive Branch, Executive Dictate, Exercise, Face, Fail, Federal, Feduce, Force, Forgiving, Fray, Free, Freedom, Freedoms, Functionalism, Good Citizens, Governance, Government, Great, Health, History, Hour, Institution, Interpretation, Irritation, Jeopardy, Laboring Oar, Legal, Legislation, Legislature, Libertarian, Liberty, Limitation, Lives Lived, Looking Out, Loss of Our Liberty, Lost Liberty, Machination, Make A Living, Mankind, Mask, Money, Nation, Natural Law, Nature, New Normal, Noble, Open, Others Will Take, Out of Control, Overbearing, Partisan Warfare, Peaceful Assembly, Permanent Emergency, Perspective, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Political Landscape, Pretending, Price, Protected Right, Pushback, Question, Quiet, Rationalism, Recall, Rein In, Restrain, Right, Rights, Rigor, Rule of Law, Safety, Samuel Adams, Sealed Fate, Security, Seize, Separation of Powers, Soul of Our Nation, States, Stay At Home Orders, Steps, Strangle, Stripping Away, Strong Enough, Surrender, Suspension, Swept Away, Technocrats, The Courts, The People, Today, True Representation, Ugly, Unending, Unfair, Urgency, Virtue Signaling, Virus, Vocal, Voices, We The People, Welfare, Withstand, Worse
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Musing My Articulation
Musing My Articulationby Michael DoyleFilled with intense moments of suspensePut aside as real and yet it’s just pretenseThere is the much to do about all these thingsMusical, be it instrumental or songs I singI approach forward in my matriculationLooking at … Continue reading
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Tagged Adjustment, All Who Came Before, Amplitude, Articulation, Attack, Attitude, Change, Choice, Composition, Decay, Establish, Exploratory, Feel Deep, Fill, Flourish, Forward, Gratitude, Grounded In, Heaven Sent, Instrumental, Latitude, Matriculation, Moments, Motifs, Muse, Musical, Musical Notation, Myself, Oratory, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Real, Remember, Sing, Single Notes, Sound, Standard, Suspense, Swell, Texture, Things, Timbre, Tone Colors, Travel, True, Voice
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