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First Principles: Allow A Government To Decline Paying Its Debts and You Overthrow All Public Morality – You Unhinge All the Principles That Preserve the Limits of Free Constitutions
“Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions. Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to extinguish the … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: All Through History, the Way of Truth and Love Have Always Won
“When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think … Continue reading
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Tagged Truth, Love, History, Thought For the Day, Time, Fall, End, Despair, Invincible, Always, Way, Won, Murderers and Tyrants, Mohandais K. Gandhi
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First Principles: Woe To Those Who Call Evil Good and Good Evil, Who Put Darkness For Light and Light For Darkness, Who Put Bitter For Sweet and Sweet For Bitter
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever … Continue reading
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Tagged Bitter, Clever, Darkness, Evil, First Principles, Good, Isaiah 5:20-21 NIV, Light, Own Eyes, Sight, Sweet, Wise, Woe
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Thought For the Day: There Are Three Constants In Life…Change, Choice, and Principles
“There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.” – Stephen Covey
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Tagged Change, Choice, Constants, Life, Principles, Stephen Covey, Thought For the Day, Three
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Wounded Bluntness
Wounded Bluntnessby Michael DoyleIt seems cliché, by revealing,When we talk about our covert feelings,That even writers aren’t sure what’s good.It’s well enough hoping to be understood.The personal is what others find compelling.Otherwise, just what is it that you’re revealing?That is, … Continue reading
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Tagged Another's Story, Arrangement, Bluntness, Books, Cemetery, Cliche, Compelling, Contemplation, Contrary, Covert Feelings, Deep, False Imagery, Funny Business, Glory, Good, Healing, Hesitatioin, Indgestion, Indiscretion, Jugged Edges, Legendary, Life, Love, Lovely and Amazing, Notes, Oblivion, Person, Poetry and Poems, Prism, Prison, Question, Redundancy, Revealing, Scribble, September, Silcence, Speculation, Stephen King, Stinging Bee, Stumble, Talk, Thought-Provoking, Thoughts, Thunder, Understood, Uptight, Vanity, Walk, Worth, Wounded, Write, Writers, Writing
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Thought For the Day: The Best Thing We Can Do With the Rest of This Century Is Aggressively Acquire – and Put Aside- the Richest Natural Reserves That We Can
“We have to create a sustainable environment, worldwide, and we’re not doing it. The best thing we can do with the rest of this century is aggressively acquire – and put aside – the richest natural reserves that we can, … Continue reading
First Principles: A Republic, By Which I Mean A Government In Which the Scheme of Representation Takes Place, Opens A Different Prospect and Promises the Cure For Which We Are Seeking
“A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.” – James Madison (1790)
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Tagged Cure, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Promise, Prospect, Republic, Scheme of Representation
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Living In Your Salvation
Living In Your Salvationby Michael DoyleIn the midst of darkness,I feel myself shiver.Delivered from the harshness,I feel my soul start to quiver.Looking on with fascination,I see His healing light.Changing my ways without procrastination,I want to live my life right.My God, … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Awesome God, Darkness, Destination, Fascination, Favor, Harshness, Healing Light, Hurt, Life, Live, Love, My God, Poetry and Poems, Procrastination, Quiver, Right, Salvation, Saving Grace, Shiver
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First Principles: If We Fail To Check the Power of the Judiciary, I Predict That We Will Eventually Live Under Judicial Tyranny
“Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? … Continue reading
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Tagged Checks and Balances, Contention, Divided Power, Evil, First Principles, Government, Judiciary, Patrick Henry, Power, Three Branches, Tyranny
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