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First Principles: A Good Moral Character Is the First Essential of All Persons
“A good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life.” – George Washington (1790)
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First Principles: National Defense Is A Cardinal Duty of Every Statesman
“National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.” – John Adams (1815)
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First Principles: A Judiciary Should Be Independent of the Executive Alone, But, Not Independent of the Nation
“A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.” -Thomas Jefferson (1820)
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First Principles: Blind Ambition and Corrupted Morals Will Destroy Our Constitution
“No Wall of words, no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.” – George Washington … Continue reading
First Principles: Honest Persons Feel No Pleasure Over Controlling Fellow Citizens
“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.” – Thomas Jefferson (1813)
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First Principles: Peace Is Better Than War; War Is Better than Tribute
“It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.” – James Madison (1816)
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First Principles: A Debt of Gratitude Is Owed To All Veterans and Their Families, Especially Wives
“Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, ‘What should be the reward of such sacrifices?’ … If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in … Continue reading
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First Principles: Love of Truth and Veneration of Virtue Are the Sparks of Discernment of Right and Wrong and True and False
“A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the ‘latent spark’… If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what … Continue reading
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Tagged Difference, False, First Principles, John Adams, Latent Spark, Love of Truth, Mankind, Passions, Principle, Right, True, Understand, Veneration of Virtue, Vice, Virtue, Wrong
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First Principles: Let Us Rely On the Goodness of Our Causes and the Aid of God
“Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions.” – George Washington, in his General Orders (1776) … Continue reading
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