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First Principles: Honest Persons Feel No Pleasure Over Controlling Fellow Citizens
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.” – Thomas Jefferson (1813)
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First Principles: Peace Is Better Than War; War Is Better than Tribute
“It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.” – James Madison (1816)
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Tagged America, First Principles, James Madison, Peace, Settled Policy, Tribute, War
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First Principles: A Debt of Gratitude Is Owed To All Veterans and Their Families, Especially Wives
“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, ‘What should be the reward of such sacrifices?’ … If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in … Continue reading
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Tagged Death, Duty, First Principles, Gratitude, Honor, Injuries, Sacrifice, Samuel Adams, Service, Suicide, Thought
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First Principles: Love of Truth and Veneration of Virtue Are the Sparks of Discernment of Right and Wrong and True and False
“A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the ‘latent spark’… If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what … Continue reading
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Tagged Difference, False, First Principles, John Adams, Latent Spark, Love of Truth, Mankind, Passions, Principle, Right, True, Understand, Veneration of Virtue, Vice, Virtue, Wrong
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First Principles: Let Us Rely On the Goodness of Our Causes and the Aid of God
“Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions.” – George Washington, in his General Orders (1776) … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Aid, America, Enourage, First Principles, George Washington, Goodness of the Cause, Noble, Rely, Supreme Being, Victory
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First Principles: The Whole Art of Government Consists of Being Honest and Doing Your Duty
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Art of Government, Credit, Duty, First Principles, Honest, Humanity, Learn, Read, Right, Think, Wrong
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First Principles: To Vote Is A Solemn Trust Accountable To God and Country
“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual — or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountable, Citizen, Country, First Principles, God, Samuel Adams, Society, Solemn Trust, Vote
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First Principles: Those Who Follow Christian Holidays Should Follow Christian Precepts
“How many observe Christ’s birth-day! How few, his precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.” – Benjamin Franklin (1743)
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Christ's Birthday, Commandments, First Principles, Holidays, Observe, Precepts
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