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First Principles: We Came As Equals Into This World and We Shall Leave This World As Equals As Well
“We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.” – George Mason
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First Principles: Popular Government Cannot Flourish Without Virtue In the People
“It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.” – Richard Henry Lee
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First Principles: Government Is Founded On the Necessities of Our Nature and the Unchangeable Will of God
“Government is founded not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes; nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and of the revolution of 1688; nor on property, as was the assertion of Harrington. It springs from the … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Abolition of Slavery Is the Great Object of Desire In Our Early Republic
“The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.” – Thomas Jefferson On July 1, 2019, Charlottesville stripped it’s celebration of Thomas Jefferson’s birth from its holidays … Continue reading
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Tagged Abolition, Colonies, Domestic, First Principles, Infant State, Introduce, Objective, Slavery, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: In A Representative Republic, the Education of Our Children Must Be of Utmost Importance
“In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!” – James Monroe
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First Principles: Failing To Pay Attention To the World’s Details Prevents All But A Few From Seeing and Discovering God
“That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so very few, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though … Continue reading
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Tagged Blind, Deity, Discover, Evidence, Excess, First Principles, George Berkeley, Great Truth, Inattention, Light, Mankind, Mind, Reason, Surround
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First Principles: There Is No Freedom of Choice Without the Freedom To Refuse
“There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.” -David Hume
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First Principles: Government’s Only End Is the Preservation of Property
“Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.” – John Locke If we vote any of these socialists in the office of the presidency in 2020, we will have turned our backs on our founding principles,.. and I will … Continue reading
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First Principles: The End of Law Is Not To Abolish Or Restrain, But, To Preserve and Enlarge Freedom
“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.” – John Locke … Continue reading
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First Principles: Humanity’s Sacred Rights Are Written By the Hand of the Divinity Not To Be Removed or Hidden By Mortal Power
“The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Divinity, First Principles, Hand, Human Natures, Mankind, Mortal Power, Old Parchments, Records, Rummage, Sacred Rigths, Sunbeam, Volume, Written
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