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First Principles: Our Government Should Not Be Allowed To Perpetuate Debt
“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)
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Tagged Economy, First Principles, Government, Increase, Public Debt, Rulers, The People, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: The People’s Rights Are Derived From Natural Law Not the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
“A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.” – Thomas Jefferson (1774)
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Tagged Chief Magistrate, First Principles, Free People, Gift, Government, Natural Law, Nature, Rights, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Persons In High Offices of Public Service Should Have High Moral Character
“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a state than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.” – Samuel Adams (1775) … Continue reading
First Principles: Racism Has No Proper Place Except An Oppressive Error To Be Learned About From History
“We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.” – James Madison (1787)
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Tagged Color, Distinction, Dominion, Enlightenment, Exercise, First Principles, James Madison, Man Over Man, Oppression, Racism
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First Principles: The Sum of Government Is to Restrain Mankind From Harming Others and Otherwise Free
“A wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has … Continue reading
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Tagged Earnings, First Principles, Free Market, Frugal, Good Government, Harm, Improvement, Industry, Labor, Mankind, Restrain, Sum, Thomas Jefferson, Wise
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First Principles: Education Uncoupled From Religion Harms Morality and Principles
“Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.” – Benjamin Rush (1783)
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Tagged Benjamin Rush, First Principles, Learning, Mankind, Mischief, Moral, Principle, Religion
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First Principles: The Ocean of Liberty Is Stormy and Always Has Waves
“The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.” – Thomas Jefferson (1820)
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First Principles: To Give Trade A Stable Course, Commercial Policy Should Hold An Equal and Impartial Hand
“Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing … Continue reading
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Tagged Commercial Policy, Diversify, First Principles, Free Market, George Washington, Harmony, Impartial, Liberal, Nations, Stable, Trade
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First Principles: Division Is Naturally Sown Among Mankind
“The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.” – James Madison, Federalist No. 10 (1787)
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Tagged Cause, Faction, First Pinciples, Humanity's Nature, James Madison, Latent, Sown, The Federalist Papers
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First Principles: Inclinations and Passions Must Yield to Evidentiary Facts
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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Tagged Dictate, Evidence, Facts, First Prinicples, Inclination, John Adams, Passions, Stubborn, Wishes
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