Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: Human Kindness Has Never Weakened the Stamina Or Softened the Fiber of a Free People. A Nation Does Not Have To Be Cruel To Be Tough.

Posted on August 21, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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First Principles: Freedom Is the Open Window Through Which Pours the Sunlight of the Human Spirit and Human Dignity

Posted on August 20, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.” – Herbert Hoover

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First Principles: Don’t Expect To Build Up the Weak By Pulling Down the Strong

Posted on August 19, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.” – Calvin Coolidge

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First Principles: America’s Present Need Is Not Heroics But Healing; Not Nostrums But Normalcy; Not Revolution But Restoration

Posted on August 18, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.” – Warren G. Harding

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First Principles: Above All Else, Guard Your Heart, For Everything You Do Flows From It

Posted on August 17, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” – Proverbs 4:23

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First Principles: You Are Not Here Merely To Make A Living. You Are Here In Order To Enable the World To Live More Amply, With Greater Vision

Posted on August 16, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, … Continue reading →

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First Principles: We Must Dare To Be Great, and We Must Realize That Greatness Is the Fruit of Toil and Sacrifice and High Courage

Posted on August 15, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.” – William Howard Taft

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First Principles: The Evils We Experience Flow From the Excess of Democracy. The People Do Not Want Virtue, But Are the Dupes of Pretended Patriots

Posted on August 14, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.” – Elbridge Gerry, Constitutional Convention (May 31, 1787)

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First Principles: To Befoul the Unholy Alliance Between Corrupt Business and Corrupt Politics Is the First Task of the Statesmanship of Today

Posted on August 13, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Let Us Ever Remember That Our Interest Is In Concord, Not In Conflict; and That Our Real Eminence Rests In the Victories of Peace, Not Those of War

Posted on August 12, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.” – William McKinley

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