Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: Where There Is No Religion, Government Becomes A Hellish Anarchy Until Religion Returns

Posted on July 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.” – Daniel Morgan

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First Principles: National and Individual Happiness Comes From Love of Liberty; Respect For Laws; Habits of Industry; and Practice of Moral and Religious Obligations

Posted on July 1, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Your love of liberty — your respect for the laws — your habits of industry — and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.” – George Washington (1789)

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First Principles: Nothing Impels Regard of Constituents As the Certainty of Participating In Their Burdens

Posted on June 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interests of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens.” – George Mason … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The American Revolution Bonded Principles of Civil Government With Principles of Christianity

Posted on June 29, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.” – John Adams

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First Principles: Power In Our Republic Is To Be Bound By the Chains of the Constitution

Posted on June 28, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1798)

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First Principles: Public Fund Expenditures Must Be Fully Accounted For

Posted on June 27, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.” – Thomas Jefferson (1808)

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First Principles: Free Government Consists of the Rule of Law and the People Are Party To the Law

Posted on June 26, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Any government is free to the people under it where the laws rule and the people are a party to the laws.” – William Penn, Frame of Government (1682)

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First Principles: Let Knowledge and Virtue Enable Your Motives Through Life In Acting To Relieve the Distressed, Detect Fraud, Defeat Oppression and Diffuse Happiness

Posted on June 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Without Liberty, Law Becomes Oppression

Posted on June 24, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” – James Wilson (1790)

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First Principles: Any Law That Violates the Inalienable Rights of Mankind Is No Law At All and Is Unjust and Tyrannical

Posted on June 23, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.” – Maximilien Robespierre

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