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First Principles: Let Us Never Forget That America’s Inheritance Rests On A History of Heroes Struggling For Our Future Generations
“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial … Continue reading
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Tagged American Youth, Ancestors, Blessings of Life, Blood, First Principles, Guard, Independence, Joseph Story, Liberty, Never Forget, Noble Inheritance, Peace, Posterity, Property, Religion, Toil, Transmit
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Thought For the Day: Capitalism Unevenly Distributes Prosperity; Socialism Evenly Distributes Misery
“The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.” – Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Samson (XI)
Continuing in this humble retelling of the story of Samson and Delilah as originally set out in The Book of Judges: Samson XI by Michael Romani XI Delilah torments and taunt her precious Samson Desiring the secrets that make him a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bliind, Book of Judges, Cast, Chain, Confess, Cunning, Cut, Deception, Delilah, Dungeon, Fear, God, Hair, Humble, Humility, Lie, Lock, Love, Nazirite, Philistine, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pride, Prince, Samson, Secret, See, Self-Reliance, Servant, Shorn, Sleeping Potion, Trust, Voice, Vow
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Surviving the Ride
From Socrates to Rush’s Neil Pert to observance of every day life, we all learn one thing fairly early on, conform or be cast out. Surviving the Ride by Michael Romani Time and again, it’s the same story All sorts … Continue reading
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Tagged Bust, Cast Out, Conform, Discern, Fingerprint, Functional Rules, Glory, Individuals, Innocent, Inside, Judge, Learn, Own Thought, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Questions, Ride, Rush, Sentence, Society, Socrates, Sought, Soul, Step Out of Line, Story, Survive, Think, Trouble, Trust
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Wishing The Maybe
Do you ever have moments where you stop and pause and think on things like maybe things might have been different or maybe this or that? I do. Those are the moments to be quiet and listen in. Trying to … Continue reading
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Tagged Balance, Borrow, Bought, Chess, City, Compassion, Consider, Could, Deliberate, Dragon, Eye, Family, Fool, Gift, God, Good, Hesitate, Hiding Seek, Late Night, Let It Be, Lines, Maybe, Moment, Morality Play, Nothing, Outcast, Photograph, Pity, Plain View, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Relive, Remembrance, Rule, Sky, Sleep, Society, Sought, Think, Throwaway, Tomorrow, Travesty, Treasure, Truth, Wish, Yesterday
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First Principles: A Government of Unjust Laws Cannot Stand Before An Armed People
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Disarmed, Europe, First Principles, Force, Noah Webster, Rule, Standing Army, Supreme Power, The People, United States, Unjust Law
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Thought For the Day: Do Things For Others Not For Benefit But Because of Who You Are
“Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.” — H. Kushner
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Tagged Change, Do Things, Harold S Kushner, Kind, Others, People, Return, The World, Thought For the Day, Who You Are, You
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First Principles: Honest Friendship With All Nations; Entangling Alliances With None
“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)
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Tagged All Nations, Alliances, Commerce, Entangle, First Principles, Honest Friendship, None, Peace, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: Self Reliance Is the Only Road To True Freedom
“Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one’s own person is its ultimate reward.” – Patricia Sampson (1921-1998)
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Tagged Freedom, Patricia Simpson, Person, Reward, Road, Self-Reliance, Thought For the Day, True, Ultimate
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Sweet Talk
For the first time in 160 years, those tiny little conversation hearts will not be available for Valentine’s Day. There’s something tragic in that. Still, the relief is that they’ll be back in 2020. Sweet Talk by Michael Romani Sit … Continue reading
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Tagged Candy Heart, Conversation, Heart, Magic, Photograph, Please, Poem, Poetry, Start, Sweet Talk, Sweetheart, Tease, Valentine's Day
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