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First Principles: Congress Is Meant To Be Limited With Enumerated Powers
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.” — James … Continue reading
First Principles: The Voice of Reason Is Too Often Drowned Out for Immediate and Immoderate Gains
“But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain.” – … Continue reading
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First Principles: To All Persons – Exact and Equal Justice
“It is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government… Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever persuasion, religious or political.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)
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First Principles: Let Justice Be Done Though The Falls Should Fall
“Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.” – John Adams (1777)
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First Principles: Nothing Is More Certain Than That Licentiousness and Corruption Make A People Ripe For Destruction
“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the … Continue reading
First Principles: Be Aware of the Jealousies That Too Often Frame the Depiction of Political Adversaries
“Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political jealousy of some among us faithful likenesses of the human character, the inference would be, that there is not sufficient virtue among men for self-government; and that nothing less than … Continue reading
First Principles: Resolve to perform what you ought; Then Do It
“Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.” – Benjamin Franklin (1771)
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First Principles: All the World Is Better With Commerce At Perfect Liberty
“I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson
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First Thoughts: America’s Fundamental Principle Amounts To Equal Treatment Under the Law for All Persons
“[I]t is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government… Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever persuasion, religious or political.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)
ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 