Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: When Legislators Take and Destroy the Property of the People or Reduce the People To Slavery, the People Are Absolved From Further Obedience

Posted on July 12, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Right To Freely Examine Public Persons and Measures and Freely Communicate Is the Only Effectual Guardian of Every Other Right

Posted on July 11, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon … has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”– James Madison (1798)

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First Principles: Like A City On A Hill, the Eyes of All People Are On America

Posted on July 10, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Our Liberty Depends On Our Education, Law and Habits and Is Founded On Morality and Religion

Posted on July 9, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Sad Will Be the Day When Americans Forget Their Traditions and Their History

Posted on July 8, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Seek Knowledge For the Benefit of Your Soul, Not For the Sake of Applause Or To Dispute

Posted on July 7, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.” – Jonathan Edwards

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First Principles: Honesty Is the First Chapter In the Book of Wisdom

Posted on July 6, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” – Thomas Jefferson

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First Principles: Whoever Would Overthrow A Nation’s Liberty Must Begin By Subduing Free Speech

Posted on July 5, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” – Benjamin Franklin

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First Principles: Happy Fourth of July!

Posted on July 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson, in The Declaration of … Continue reading →

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First Principles: It Isn’t How You Die. It’s What You Live For

Posted on July 3, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“It isn’t how you die. It’s what you live for.” – Daniel Boone

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