Category Archives: First Principles

First Principles: America’s Bosom Is Open To Those With Merit and Act Decent and Have Proper Conduct

Posted on October 29, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by … Continue reading →

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First Principles: States and Their Militias Serve A Powerful Check To the Ambition and Power of the Federal Government

Posted on October 28, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Think and Act For Yourself and Our Nation In the Pursuit of Right Over Wrong

Posted on October 27, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors.” – Thomas Jefferson (1775) … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Laws Should Be Few; Fixed and Easy To Understand

Posted on October 26, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws … undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Pride Is Among The Hardest of Our Passions To Subdue

Posted on October 25, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Good Political Leadership Requires the Influence of Personal Character In Moderating Political Divisions

Posted on October 24, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The influence of your personal character moderates the divisions of political parties…” – George Washington

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First Principles: We Must Stand Firm Over Every Form of Tyranny Over the Minds of Mankind

Posted on October 23, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” – Thomas Jefferson (1800)

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First Principles: If Mankind With Religion Is So Wicked, Imagine Mankind Without It

Posted on October 22, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?” – Benjamin Franklin We don’t have to imagine that much any more, look at the wars and atrocities committed in the 20th Century.

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First Principles: Democracy Soon Degenerates Into the Depths of Such Anarchy That All Moral Virtue Is Extinguished

Posted on October 21, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A People Ignorant and Ill Mannered Will Sink of Their Own Weight

Posted on October 20, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“When People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.” – Samuel Adams (1775)

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