Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: Nothing Is More Essential To the Establishment of Manners In State Than All Persons Employed In Places of Power and Trust Must Be Men of Unexceptional Characters

Posted on October 23, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.” – Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775

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First Principles: The Republican Is the Only Form of Government Which Is Not Eternally At Open Or Secret War With the Rights of Mankind

Posted on October 22, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.” – Thomas Jefferson (1790)

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First Principles: There Is But One Straight Course, and That Is To Seek the Truth and Pursue It Steadily

Posted on October 21, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.” – George Washington (1795)

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First Principles: The Freedom and Happiness of Man…(Are) the Sole Objects of All Legitimate Government

Posted on October 20, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The freedom and happiness of man…[are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.” –Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1810

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First Principles: The Greatest Good We Can Do Our Country Is To Heal Its Party Divisions and Make Them One People

Posted on October 19, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.” -Thomas Jefferson (1801)

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First Principles: I Know No Safe Depository of the Ultimate Powers of the Society But the People Themselves

Posted on October 18, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from … Continue reading →

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First Principles: They That Can Give Up Essential Liberty To Purchase A Little Temporary Safety, Deserve Neither Liberty Nor Safety

Posted on October 17, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin (1759)

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First Principles: It Is the Duty, As Well As the Privilege and Interest of Our Christian Nation, To Select and Prefer Christians For Their Rulers

Posted on October 16, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers … and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” – John Jay, first … Continue reading →

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First Principles: I Think All the World Would Gain By Setting Commerce At Perfect Liberty

Posted on October 15, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson (1785)

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First Principles: With Man This Is Impossible, But With God All Things Are Possible

Posted on October 14, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26 (New International Version)

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