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First Principles: Without Virtue We Cannot Secure Our Nation
“Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks — no form of government can render us secure.” – James Madison (1778)
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Tagged Balances, Checks, First Principles, God, Government, James Madison, Lack of Virtue, Security, Virtue, Wretched Situation
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Daily Prompt – Criticism
There are places in this world where pessimism Is more than the flip side of joyful optimism And where harsh words of vehement criticism Erases every positive element of humanism When we look down these dark alleys of pallor We … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs & Memories
Tagged America, Criticism, Daily Prompt, Dark Alleys, Element, Escape, Humanisim, Oppression, Optimism, Pallor, Pessimism, Samaritan, Sneer, Temptation, Tremble, World
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Another Night; Another Moon
Based on some sort of compound word based poetry that I got wrong due to word count. Another Night, Another Moon by Michael Romani Silently we move to dance Bodies whispering sweet romance Underneath the moonlight Quietly, we move together … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Body Language, Braille, Compound, Down the Line, Dreams, Eyes, Lips, Moon, Moonbeam, Moonlight, Moonrise, Moonstone, Moonstruck, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Whisper
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Thought For the Day: There Is Less Competition To Be Among Those Who Do the Work
“My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.” – Indira Gandhi … Continue reading
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Tagged Accomplish, Credit, Humility, Indira Gandhi, People, Thought For the Day, Toot One's Horn, Work
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First Principles: To Be Legitimate, A Government Should Secure and Enlarge The Natural Rights of Its Society
“Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of … Continue reading
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Tagged Enlarge, First Principles, Government, James Wilson, Legitimate, Natural Rights, Principal Object, Secure, Society
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Fanfare and Flourish
Life can be filled with absurdities, some deeper than others. Fanfare and Flourish by Michael Romani In the fanfare and flourish Of too many mournful violins It seems life begins to nourish An image of a world of violence Divided … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Blindness, Burn, Conscience, Divided, Empty Pride, Falling Star, Fanfare, Flourish, Golden Rule, Kindness, Living, Losing Hand, Misunderstood, Mournful, Numbers, Old School, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Possibility, Thorn, Walls
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First Principles: The Spirit of Encroachment Tends To Consolidate Power In Government Into Despotism
“The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism.” — George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796
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Tagged Consolidate, Despotism, Encroachment, Farewell Address, First Principles, George Washington, Power, Spirit, Tyranny, Uniary
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Thought For the Day: It’s Older Men That Send Younger Men To Fight Wars
“I hate with a murderous hatred those men who, having lived their youth, would send into war other youth, not lived, unfulfilled, to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that … Continue reading
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Tagged Death, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Older Men, Pride, Purpose, Thought For the Day, War, Younger Men
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Learning and Knowing Jesus
Based in part on Philippians 3:10: Learning and Knowing Jesus by Michael Romani That we might know Him Moving this out past whim The questions start to run How to tell about the one What might one start to tell About … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam, Authority, Believe, Calvary, Congregration, Divinity, Faith, Father, Galilee, Good Book, Holy Ghost, Inspiration, Jesus, Knowing, Learning, Logos, Mystery, Paradigm, Philippians, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Questions, Savior, Son, Trinity
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Daily Prompt – Heat
In the heated challenge of the inside out Where certainty is a near shadow of doubt There are moments pondered here and now When muddled conclusions work somehow There in the midst of the summer’s heat Is where the rubber … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Daily Prompt, Do Over, Doubt, Error, Heat, Inside Out, Luck, Muddled Conclusion, Night Terror, Photograph, Rubber and Road, Simple Truth, Summer, Wish
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