Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: Liberty, Once Lost, Is Lost Forever

Posted on June 2, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“But a constitution of government once changed from freedom can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.””– John Adams

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First Principles: Beware That Two Passions Strongly Influence Politics – Love of Power and Love of Money

Posted on June 1, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“(T)here are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice—the love of power and the love of money. Separately, each of these has great force in prompting men to action; but, … Continue reading →

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First Principles: America Was Meant To Unify In Establishing American English As Our National Language

Posted on May 31, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“NOW is the time, and this the country, in which we may expect changes favorable to language . . . . Let us then seize the present moment, and establish a national language, as well as a national government.” – … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Our Constitution Was Made For A Moral and Religious People and Is Inadequate To Govern Otherwise

Posted on May 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Generally, Societies Flourish and Decline To the Degree These Exercise the Duties of Justice and Humanity

Posted on May 29, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practise or neglect to practise the primary duties of justice and humanity.” – William Henry Seward, Secretary of State, Governor, and Senator … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Matters of Faith Must Be Left To the Conviction and Conscience of Every Person

Posted on May 29, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Because we hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, “that religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.” … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Our Republic Is Intended Give Mankind Civil and Religious Liberty

Posted on May 28, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Courage, then, my countrymen, our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.” – Samuel Adams, Speech at the State House, … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Freedom Requires Those Willing to Undergo the Rigors of Supporting It

Posted on May 27, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 4, September 11, 1777

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First Principles: Liberty of Conscience In All Just Things Makes It Impossible That Government Will Degenerate Into Tyranny

Posted on May 26, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The End of Our Republic Is Heralded By People Voting Themselves Money

Posted on May 25, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” – Benjamin Franklin

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