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Category Archives: First Principles
First Principles: Every Measure of Prudence…Ought To Be Assumed For the Eventual Extirpation of Slavery From the United States
“Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States. … I have, throughout my whole life, held the practice of slavery in … abhorrence.” – John Adams (1819) For … Continue reading
First Principles: The Foundation On Which All Constitutions Are Build Is the Natural Equality of Man, the Denial of Every Preeminence But That Annexed To Legal Office and Particularly the Denial of A Preeminence By Birth
“The foundation on which all [constitutions] are built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every preeminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a preeminence by birth.” – Thomas Jefferson (1784)
First Principles: We In America Do Not Have Government By the Majority – We Have Government By the Majority Who Participate
“We in America do not have government by the majority—we have government by the majority who participate…. All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” – Thomas Jefferson
First Principles: In A Single Sentence of Self-Evident Truth, the Founding Fathers Put…the Broad Basis of Man’s Relationship To God, Government and To Mankind
“The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into clear, easily understandable focus, the broad basis of man’s relationship to God, to government, and to … Continue reading
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First Principles: All the World Would Gain By Setting Commerce At Perfect Liberty
“I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson (1785)
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First Principles: In Disquisitions of Every Kind There Are Certain Primary Truths, or First Principles, Upon Which All Subsequent Reasoning Must Depend
“In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.” – Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist No. 20 (1788)
First Principles: Neither the Wisest Constitution Nor the Wisest Laws Will Secure the Liberty and Happiness of A People Whose Manners Are Universally Corrupt
“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.” – Samuel Adams (1749)
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First Principles: People Will Not Look Forward To Posterity, Who Never Look Backward To Their Ancestors
“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.” – Edmund Burke, in Reflections on the Revolution in France
First Principles: We Base All Our Experiments On the Capacity of Mankind For Self-Government
“We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.” – James Madison
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First Principles: I Place Economy Among the First and Most Important Virtues and Public Debt As the Greatest Dangers To Be Feared
“I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared.” – Thomas Jefferson
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